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Re: [LUG] More scam emails

 

On 13/10/18 16:31, Neil wrote:
On 13/10/2018 16:07, Gordon Henderson wrote:
On Sat, 13 Oct 2018, Neil wrote:

I do have different passwords for each site. Since my email I have had two more such rubbish emails. At least I now know that I am not the only one.

The LinkedIn breach leaked 117 million email addresses and passwords.

So, not the only one - not even slightly...

Gordon

Thanks, I feel better now. I have heard that in Windows there is an add-on which will automatically delete scam emails before you even see them. But there is not one for Linux. Probably just as well. I do glance through the junk mail list before I delete them and sometimes there is one that should not be there, so I have to "un-junk" it.

Neil

Hi Neil,

Using Thunderbird I filter on FROM address:

If FROM is NOT in ADDRESS BOOK then MOVE To Blacklist folder. I check that daily and if there are repeats I actually want I add them to the Address Book. On the other hand if there are repeat offenders I add the subject or sender to a filter with the action Delete From POP Server. That performs the same action as the add-on you mentioned. Then they never even get to my PC for me to accidentally click to expose the address to more spam.

I could do that for all mails not in my Address Book but I get too many false positives at the moment to rely on it.

Kind regards,

Julian

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