Is anyone else getting heaps of junk mail in your Yahoo! email account?

I am as well....it seems to be getting worse.

STOP opening them! Opening spam alerts the sender that your address is a valid one and they send you loads and loads more. You can not completely stop all spam, but you can help to put a big dent in it.

Check mark them and click on 'Spam,' this should stop those addresses from being delivered to your inbox.

Use your spam guard and block address.

Look for the 'Options' link at upper right corner of mail screen and click on it

Options /mail options

Click on 'spam' in the list on the left.

Make sure spam guard is on, by checking in the little box.

Then in 'Blocked Email Addresses,' enter the E-mail address you wish blocked, in the box after 'Add a blocked address' and click on the 'add' button, then click on save changes at top left of screen.

You will never get mail from that address again.

This should help you to control your spam.

Other tips:

Do not ever open E-mail from people you do not know; and unless you are absolutely sure who it is from then treat them as spam.

Never, ever give out your account information or other personal information to anyone.

If you are on a site and you absolutely have to sign up for something, check the entire page to make sure you uncheck any lines wanting to send you any other info, notices, catalogs, ads, and the like.

Added detail:

Yes, spammers change one item in their addresses a lot, so you might try blocking the entire domain, by putting in

*@ thedomainyouwanttoblock.com

for instance: *@seeyou.com

Or, if they change the domain, instead of the company name you can block the name by putting in Imatheft_inc@*

Hope this helps

No I didn't get this e mail and it is surly a primitive way from an amateur Hacker to have your password. Be aware that yahoo (as an E mail provider) is committed by law to keep and save all the users data (whatever it is correct or not ) and back it up. From another hand every time we log in yahoo, we send ( through the log form ) to yahoo data base our PW and e mail address which captured and compared with the data which yahoo has and under his control. If for whatever reason yahoo has lost this data (your e mail and password), you will not be able to log in P&S and post this question :-) Be save

Yes. I usually have about 12 per day. About 7 years ago, I got a new email account b/c it just go ridiculous.

I get a fair amount but it shouldn't bother if it's going into your spam folder, just don't check that.

im getting heaps of junk mail i do not want. how do i stop this?