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Quoi | 11:53 Fri 16th May 2014 | Technology
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My email address seems to have been recently acquired by spammers and I am getting an irritating increase in spam.
blocking them isnt working because the senders email address isnt t the same as the 'reply address'.
Sometimes the senders address is my own email address and/or various names ending with my email domain.
Also I am using windows live mail which 'message rules' doesnt seem to apply to.
All these email seem to have similar subjects ( been through all the banks and paypal now) currently its about court appearances etc.

Phew.... so question is what is the best product to reduce the annoyance please?
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Change your password would be the first thing I would do.
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Chrissa, they havent got into my emails, It looks like the address has been 'crawled' from my web site. The emails from my address are not actual addresses ie things like [email protected] or [email protected].
this means I cant block the domain because it looks like it came from my domain.
I dont think the blockers access the 'reply address' which is the real spam address.
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This is an example from the email properties ( i have removed any identifying info ( i hope)

but you can see the email is related to administrator@ and f6b1a17e@

Return-Path:
X-Original-To: me@myemail address.co.uk
Delivered-To: me@myemail address.co.uk
X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender
Received-SPF: none (no valid SPF record)
Received-SPF: none (no valid SPF record)
X-No-Relay: not in my network
X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender
Received: from IDMWDVL (unknown [ip address])
by ple-01.keele.netcentral.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF9801262C1;
Fri, 16 May 2014 10:44:19 +0000 (GMT)
Received: from 3905.myemail.co.uk (ip address) by myemail.co.uk (ip address) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 8R8MVBEJ; Wed, 14 May 2014 09:05:61 GMT
Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 09:98:86 GMT
From: "[email protected]"
Message-ID:
To: [email protected]
Subject: IMPORTANT - Internal Use only
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="----=_Next_86256_8846790629.6758743524751"
X-Antivirus: AVG for E-mail 2013.0.3469 [3722/7503]
X-AVG-ID: ID44EF32B7-72D8B891

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The first line in the example should read

Return-Path: [email protected]

i think ab didn't like the brackets

whatever you do, change your password, and make sure your spam filter is up to date.
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get adblock plus number one for spam blocking
using for ages

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