I have this stupid friend of mine who is giving me a lot of pain these days. He is registering my profile and putting up my Email ID along with my phone no. on the worst spam sites on the web. These sites sadly do not require any confirmation or anything. I've got more spam in the last couple of weeks than in the last 5 years. What should I do? How can I stop it.
I have started filtering all the mails and delete them directly. But it's not helping much. Sometimes I also report phishing. Should I start marking it as spam?
Moreover there are a few sites like this one called the monster.com which are a real pain in the neck. I cannot create a filter for them because the mails which I receive are something like this:
From: team1@career-links.com via mint1.monster.co.inmonster.co.in
When I create filter for such mails, only "team1@career-links.com" gets selected. Sadly this part keeps on changing. Even "mint1.monster.co.in" changes but the change only takes place in the integer attached with mint. So its like mint&&.monster.co.in. So the monster.co.in part remains same. How can I exploit this fact?
Best Answer
My advice is to report email as SPAM, as Gmail has a pretty efficient engine at detecting SPAM once it knows your habits. Another option is to use Filters and Labels to sort mail which is directly addressed to you, so you can identify them easier. But the efficiency of the latter depends much on how the SPAM is sent.
To set up a filter to remove
*@monster.co.in, go to Settings > Filters > Create New Filter and putmonster.co.inin the From field, and then tell it to move the selected emails to the trash, or mark them as SPAM.