Blocking Spam

[jayemcee]

I get dozens of spam(probably like everyone else) mails from find a bride to borrow a million to claim against all and sundry. I routinely put these into junk and block them. Increasingly I cannot do this as I am told that the senders address is not valid!! How the heck do they manage to send them if they have not got a valid address??
Outlook used to put all of this stuff into the junk folder automatically and now they put it all into the inbox. Have they changed their policy , and why so. Fed up

[Old_Geezer]

Spam folk can put anything in their address because it isn't used to route their spam to you. Does your AV not check for possible spam ? Or your e-mail provider ? How about your e-mail client ?

[Old_Geezer]

Mail washer might help. It has a free version.

[jayemcee]

Thank you both for your interest. I do have eset and will look at that route and also look to see what outlook say they do. Sorry, I just put my whinge into words as I had a whole stream of the .... things today. Went for a walk, saw some field fares and now feel a whole lot better, many thanks.

[henry1938]

adblock plus is number one for spam

[Tilly2]

I didn't realise that Adblock stopped spam......!

[Baldric]

As far as I know it doesn't, only stops adverts for Spam.

[jayemcee]

I do have Ad bloc plus and it just ignores emails. I think that the providers should inhibit the sending of emails from an invalid address. Should be simple enough (??) to program I would have thought.

[jayemcee]

Hi old geezer, could you tell this old gal what my AV is please? And how I can check it?

[Tilly2]

Anti virus programme, Jayemcee. in case Og's not about

[Old_Geezer]

Aye. I use Kaspersky but you might use something else.

[jayemcee]

Thanks everyone, I will chip away.