Junk mail. Grrrrr!!

My email junkmail amount used to be fairly slight until about a year ago just after giving up my desktop   Windows PC, and getting set up on a Macbook laptop.

I think it's something to do with Apple, who let others have our email details : /

Debs

Similar issue here Steve - iMac fine but iPad and iPhone get clogged with junk 

Do you use the Apple email client, or webmail (Gmail, Outlook etc)? Please tell me you don't use your ISP email.

I find (in Outlook) that I need to be diligent in marking new stuff as junk and blocking the sender, but if I keep on top of it, it isn't too bad. 

I've always assumed that one's details are being passed on.  I get well over 100 junk emails per day. It's sometimes easier to delete from the Mac rather than logging in and tinkering with the email filter on the server.  It is all getting much worse lately.  Luckily, Blackberry allows' Delete from Server', so if the phone gets it first I can delete it before it reaches the Mac.

I'm a Win-10 PC user & have BT-Yahoo mail - my ISP's own mail system - I after reading the stories on this thread, it seems I'm doin' OK. 

Its got a spam folder & the real junk, scam & phishing mail most every time goes into there.  I get about 2 maybe 4 per day that go to spam & I just press the delete button or leave them for a week & the system does it for me.  I also get a few genuine commercial mails per day, a restaurant I've used or some cmpy I've made enquiries with & not forgetting dear old Amazon - have a look at anything & they send you related e-mails for about a month.   I used to get a lot of advertising mails from various companies all using the same NY post mail address,  but these seem to have dried up since I un-subscribed to each & every one.

Also, & I don't know why,  I have not received a nuisance phone call in over 2 weeks.  I used to get upwards of 5 per day.   

Hey a blackberry user, in the meanwhile a rare species, how come?

May be the Private Equity guys that took over Naim and Focal had some smart ideas selling your data.

Snowden will know- Smile- Money talks-BS walks

If you know for sure its junk mail, don't open it (just doing that can activate code to confirm you opened the email ) and if using a webmail ( Hotmail/Google et al ) select Junk, at least then they get on top of things.

In Canada we have the Canadian Anti Spam Legislation (CASL) and if a company doesn't have an unsubscribe option in the email, they can be fined up to $1,000,000.  The trick is determining if it is legitimate nowadays - what with clever phishing around.  Back in the day the unsubscribe was a way of confirming a legitimate email...

I have friends with Yahoo accounts and some of them were hacked recently, which triggered spam emails from said person, but with non legit contents. So it could be either a friend (or a company who had your email) that was hacked, and now you are getting the spam, hopefully it reduces soon.

Going forward maybe have a 'junk' email i.e. one for signing up for things like offers, mailing lists etc, to help keep real email accounts junk free ?

Like Mike, I find that Windows 10 and Hotmail are pretty much perfect in filtering out junk. Average of 2 or 3 a day in my junk folder and that's it. Way better than a few years ago.

Win 10 and BT Yahoo here for my personal mail; I doubt I get 2 junk messages a week. Filtering is very effective.

At work I get loads of marketing spam. That appears to be because the NHS shares my email address with everyone. Very annoying.

Bruce

The spam filter on my MacBook Pro works well. I just wish it did on the iPad and iPhone as well. 

Steve,  I have my iPad e-mail using & sync'd with my BT e-mail & use that as my only public e-mail & only get the BT spam filtered mail;  in fact it does not even show the spam folder.  There has to be a way to do the same with your devises,  especially as they are all Apple

It has nothing to do with the operating system.

The individual mail clients may have their own spam filtering but it is often not very effective - esspecially on a phone or similar.

Ideally, filtering will be a two stage process. First the mail server should be filtering for spam (but only rejecting stuff that it is 100% sure about). Secondly the security software on each device should have user configurable filtering that moves suspect items to a junk folder.

Often there will be a spike in spam caused by spam senders developing a new technique. This will then take a few days for the anti-spam process to catch up.

With Gmail the spam filtering is done server-side so the exact same filtered view shows up on all devices (in my case laptop, desktop and phone).

I have two work email accounts, a BT account and my gmail account. The other three accounts are automatically collected by gmail so I only have to look in one place to see all my email. Also have it set up so I can respond as from any of my accounts via the gmail account.

Gmail does a reasonable job of filtering spam into a separate folder. I go in once a month cast an eye over it and generally delete the typically 40-50 mails there. 

Willy.

I'm pleased to report that following a religious regime of transferring the spam emails unopened from my Inbox to the Spam folder of BT Mail, it has finally recognised them for what they are. I was receiving around 100 at one point but the last few days has been bliss with none entering my Inbox. Thanks to everyone for their comments.