Problem with Spam E-mail?

Go ahead and change your email address, just be sure you don't ever give it to anyone, or use it for any reason.

Spammers have automated scripts that send emails out using a "dictionary attack". This means their script just sends out tons of emails to various combinations of numbers and letters at different domains. Kind of like if you just start calling phone numbers starting with 100-100-0000 then 100-100-0001, etc. They don't know what is a valid email address and what is not. When you reply to one (try to unsubscribe, or replying back telling them how you hate them), you are now confirming your email address is a real, live email address. They have special lists of those, because they know they're guaranteed real. They then sell those lists to other spammers at a premium. Then you get more spam!

I had this problem and only solved it by changing my email address.

Do not open the spam and do not reply to it as this will tell the spammers that your email address is active and they will spam you even more.

You should be able to block addresses using options then mail options as i know it is in there.

Good luck and I hope this helps.

If the spam is going to your spam folder then the Yahoo Spamguard is doing its job, putting it into that folder so you can ignore it. You need do nothing. Just let Yahoo delete it on a weekly basis. Or you can just click the (empty) button next to the spam folder.

You can reduce the amount of spam by not giving your address to websites that pretend to take polls or pretend to offer free stuff.