How do I report a constant Spam email.?

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I keep getting this email sent to my spam folder. I do not think it is legit. I think that if a lawyer or the court had my yahoo email. That they would contact me direct. I have never been summed by email. I don't think it would happen. For sure in the spam folder. I would think that they would either have it severed to me by a person.

I can not find a means of doing so: How do I report this email site? Who would I send the full header to? How do I block the offending email. It has an attachment that I refuse to open. Until and if I can find out if it is a legit email. I get this email almost every day. Sometimes twice a day. I thought I had blocked in but checking that today, it deleted or did not same.

I would also like to know how I get 500 blocked sites listed. I know that I have not personally blocked that many. What happens if that file is filled with 500 blocked sites. Where do any future blocks go?

Barkley Hound · Answer

The blocked address list should only be used for mail from a specific person, not spam. You should not be blocking 500 names. I will bet that 99% of them were from 1 time spoofed addresses.

If spam goes to the spam folder then that is all you can expect. Legal notices are always sent by certified mail, not email. Just ignore it.

Arthur Dent · Answer

If you want to file a spam complaint I recommend using the Spamcop service listed in the article below.

Some abuse reporting tools - http://abuse.net/tools.phtml

Trying to block or filter spam emails is a losing battle since the spammers can make small changes so their spam will evade your filters.  This leads to a never-ending cycle of you creating new filters every time a spam mail slips through.  You want to mark each email as spam so Yahoo's Spamguard will improve over time.  You can do this by right-clicking on the spam email and then left-clicking on the option "This is Spam".  Here's some articles on how to fight the good fight against spam.

Stopping spam from coming into your Yahoo! Mail Inbox. - https://help.yahoo.com/kb/mail/SLN3227.html?impressions=true

An email was wrongly filtered as spam - https://help.yahoo.com/kb/mail/SLN4910.html?impressions=true

Secure your inbox - http://antispam.yahoo.com/

Fight Spam on the Internet - http://spam.abuse.net/

Filters in Yahoo Mail - https://help.yahoo.com/kb/mail/SLN15994.html?impressions=true

Block addresses in Yahoo Mail  - https://help.yahoo.com/kb/mail/SLN3228.html?impressions=true

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How do I report a constant Spam email.?

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