Anyone that uses email very much will soon get inundated with spam or junk emails. There are plenty of spam blockers out there but one that I wish someone would create is one that blocks “subjects” not just user’s.
Many spammers have learned how to hijack people’s email accounts to push the exact same message from hundreds or thousands of users to push the same message. I know as soon as the spammers learned about the new filters, they would just adjust their delivery yet again.
I think if Gmail, Hotmail, Outlook, etc., could flag phrases or words that are used in common junk mails, these email services could then rank junk mail (a filter within a filter).
As a real estate agent in Boise, Idaho; I sort through every email I get even my spam since about once a week I find a newsletter or email that get flagged as Junk Mail that really is just a CC from someone that didn’t use their email correctly so it gets flagged as spam.
I have been getting better at using spam and junk mail filters which has helped a lot; however there is still lot’s of filtering to be done. I would think that the email service providers would be more pro-active in sorting and not distributing the spam on their end since it wouldn’t bog down their servers. For example, why not have names and phrases blocked similar to blocking adult sites?
Wouldn’t you be able to scan through your junk mail and spam filters if you never even say any that just had (Viagra, Cialis, Chantix, barely legal, flirt, romance, sex, enlarge, lottery, replicas, etc.)?
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