albear Posted October 12, 2016 ID:1066491 Share Posted October 12, 2016 I am being inundated with spam mail from some very dodgy sites, I am worried to click unsubscribe in case It is a false link. It seems to be messing my machine up at times, with outlook taking a long time to 'subcribe' my spam folder and some problems with my network adapter. I've got around it by asking outlook to delete anything that it thinks is spam but of course this is not good because valid emails can be deleted, I am secretary of a club with a particular hobby and a very powerful member was very upset with me, for embarrassing him by highlighting some unethical practices. The spam has only started flooding in since then. I am pretty certain he is responsible for it. Anyone got any suggestions please if there is a method where I can identify who has subscribed me to get these emails Thanks Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aura Posted October 13, 2016 ID:1066509 Share Posted October 13, 2016 Hi albear Sadly, I doubt that kind of method exists. For instance, a lot of websites will asks you to provide an email address to access a download (Fiddler does it). So I could enter anyone's email address in order to access the download. Who would know I entered their address? No one. It's not possible to identify me with that. There are special services that scrubs your email account, list all the newsletter, websites, etc. you are subscribed to and allow you to unsubscribe in one click. I've been using Unroll.Me before to clean up my own email address, and it worked out pretty well. You could give it a try. https://unroll.me/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
albear Posted October 15, 2016 Author ID:1066745 Share Posted October 15, 2016 Thank you Aura I'll have a look at unroll Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aura Posted October 15, 2016 ID:1066764 Share Posted October 15, 2016 No problem albear, you're welcome Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manojprabhakar Posted November 30, 2016 ID:1075734 Share Posted November 30, 2016 Thank you Aura for the unroll.me. Even I myself facing this problem, and my spam box is getting full because of this crap. As per your advice, I have tried unroll.me to clean my email address and it does a great job. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
John L. Galt Posted November 30, 2016 ID:1075746 Share Posted November 30, 2016 (edited) Found this topic on accident (thanks to @Manojprabhakar's reply above), and it might help me as well. My case is much easier, and yet harder, to discern. I have a GMail account, and someone in India has one that is similar, but he does not know it correctly. He keeps using my email address with periods (.) in it - which Google strips out. See https://support.google.com/mail/answer/10313?hl=en As a result, I keep getting his mail. Things like his phone bill, his job searches, his study guides, etc. Every subscription he has made in the last 4-5 years. He has also attempted to have PWs changed on my legitimate accounts, like my FB, G+, etc. accounts. After the very first time It happened, I quickly became a proponent of Two Factor Authentication for all my accounts. Thanks, @Aura, for unroll.me - I'll definitely take a look at it and see if I can get it working for me as well. Edited November 30, 2016 by John L. Galt Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aura Posted November 30, 2016 ID:1075825 Share Posted November 30, 2016 No problem guys, you're welcome Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoIsland Posted September 21, 2017 ID:1166159 Share Posted September 21, 2017 Hi Aura (and any other helpers) unroll.com sounds like something I could use on my email inbox; however, it keeps promptly giving me an error claiming I'm using an invalid password or email address. I know that's not true, but mail.twc.com runs very slowly and I think is actually timing out. Anyway to adjust unroll's error? TIA for all help! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nukecad Posted September 21, 2017 ID:1166170 Share Posted September 21, 2017 (edited) You might want to read these (there are plenty more) before using unroll.me, it has recently been discovered that they are trawling your inbox and selling information mined from it. https://www.engadget.com/2017/04/24/unroll-me-pseudo-apology-for-uber-deal/ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/24/unrollme-mail-unsubscription-service-heartbroken-sells-user-inbox-data-slice I'm not saying that you shouldn't use it, but be aware that you agree to this in their EUL (small print which nobody reads anyway). Edited September 21, 2017 by nukecad Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil_Hines Posted September 25, 2017 ID:1166922 Share Posted September 25, 2017 @Aura Thanks for sharing its really useful to clean Inbox. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Root Admin AdvancedSetup Posted September 28, 2017 Root Admin ID:1167745 Share Posted September 28, 2017 Very old topic. I'm going to close this old topic now. If you need current help or assistance on this subject, please start a new topic. Thank you Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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