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"Hotmail : Still getting loads of unwanted ads?"

I followed someone's advice and disallowed my addy being given out in the options menu, but niw I seem to get more!

In the past week alone I've had 14 invitations to view girls at their webcams, I've been entered into 21 competitions, I've had the opportunity to claim a holiday (Fat chance) and 34 adverts.


Anyone else getting this?

0-MessiaH-0 wrote:
> xy2k wrote:
> I get about 10 Spanish spam per day. Each email 318kb...from
> addresses
> on my contact list so I can't block them. Some kind of worm/virus
> going around.
>
> Yeah I get that too. Was stupid enough to download the attachment a
> few times as well ; /.

What was in them?

MoJoJoJo wrote:
> I get over 20 emails a day, and almost every single one is a virus or
> some poop advert. Grr
>
> And my block list is full (that has to be the stupidist thing ever,
> putting a limit on how many email addresses you can block) so I can't
> stop them!

Yeah, how bloody stupid! I filled that up and it was working for a while! Now its all back into crap junk mail. :(

I get no spam what so ever ! None, none in my hotmail account and none in my POP accounts I use with outlook.

I think its when you lot sign up for accounts online with say an SMS service or something like that, theres a box that asks if you would like related information, you mite look over this bit.

And about the viagra and similar topics, maybe youve been visiting adult sites and signing up and forgeting to tick "Plese dont supply me with related information"....

:-0 :-)

I recently got a new email in Hotmail and havent had any unwanted mails yet, and thats a couple of weeks. its like, a record or sumthing.

Thats because Hotmail blows, Yahoo is far far far far better. Far.

And nobody say "I'm with Yahoo and still get viagra e-mails and..." because thats a lie.

xy2k wrote:
> I get about 10 Spanish spam per day. Each email 318kb...from addresses
> on my contact list so I can't block them. Some kind of worm/virus
> going around.

Yeah I get that too. Was stupid enough to download the attachment a few times as well ; /.

I get emails asking me if i like sex

duh

xy2k wrote:
> I get about 10 Spanish spam per day. Each email 318kb...from addresses
> on my contact list so I can't block them. Some kind of worm/virus
> going around.

same, and the attachments are all .cpl files, right?

It seems that if you enable your Hotmail inbox protector nothing works!
I get 60 Junk mail a day and thats with the Inbox protector enabled, what would it be like if I turned the option off!

Tetchy wrote:
> Ive got an E-Mail from Hotmail themselves saying 'activate your
> junkmail filter'.
>
> Well Duh.

Hmmmm....... Microsoft send out spam to tell us to stop the spam....

The most annoying thing is that you can't block the hotmail address from sending you all that ****.