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I have been getting a lot of spam from "santander" / "northern rock" / "alliance & leicester" asking me to resolve issues on my account etc. obviously spam.phish as I don't have accounts with same. I only mention it because it has increased in the last few days. I understand it's impossible to cut out all these bleeping bleepers but I wanted to see how others were faring in this respect. I am forwarding to abuse, but I'm guessing they're subtly changing something to enable them to slip through the net again and again.

I am using thunderbird as my email client with the standard adaptive junk mail filters. Can anyone suggest a plug-in that might improve this

also freeola - do you block email by ip address when you receive an abuse report email?

Hi webcity1,
Is this a standard or 'EmailPro' account?
If it's EmailPro then you have some more options to blacklist and adjust the 'filter strength' etc. which you might like to try.

I also see these phishing attempts (as nearly everyone on the internet does!) but aren't seeing a massive influx. I haven't seen any today (and I have quite a lot of accounts) but I did yesterday.

As I have a range of Freeola accounts I can normally see when something's going on *Rolex* springs to mind!

I use MS Outlook and the Junk filters seem to pick up all of these emails. Have you looked at the originating IP addresses, they are quite likely to be different/spoofed?

I'll keep a look out for my next 'Your account login attempts bla bla' spam - but for me, over a range of domains it's not currently a problem. In fact my Freeola account spam situation is about the best it's ever been. *Kiss of Death!* ;¬)

For more info see my previous SPAM related posts

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I have been getting a lot of spam from "santander" / "northern rock" / "alliance & leicester" asking me to resolve issues on my account etc. obviously spam.phish as I don't have accounts with same. I only mention it because it has increased in the last few days. I understand it's impossible to cut out all these bleeping bleepers but I wanted to see how others were faring in this respect. I am forwarding to abuse, but I'm guessing they're subtly changing something to enable them to slip through the net again and again.

I am using thunderbird as my email client with the standard adaptive junk mail filters. Can anyone suggest a plug-in that might improve this

also freeola - do you block email by ip address when you receive an abuse report email?