Questions tagged [spam]
A spam may refer to an irrelevant/unsolicited messages sent on the Internet to a large number of recipients, or a message being sent over and over again to the same person. This tag should be use with question referring to any kind of spam or issue with the spam/junk folder.
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Spam iCloud Calendar Invitations
Today I've suddenly received spam calendar invitation for $19.99 Ray Ban sunglasses (never subscribed, checked, searched or visited any related site, so clearly spam) and it has other visible email ...
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Can I block entire area codes from my iPhone? [duplicate]
I get 4-5 telemarketer calls each day. Each time they call, it is from a completely different phone number. Including different area codes.
I've performed all of the usual procedures to combat this....
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Full screen ad on iPhone in place of lock screen
I own an iPhone 3GS and use it as personal hotspot for my MacBook Pro via USB.
The iPhone is running iOS 5.1.1, and the MacBook is running a Mountain Lion preview. However the question is not ...
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Apple Mail sometimes not showing content of e-mail
I'm using Apple Mail 16.0 (3696.120.41.1.1) on a MacBook Air (13-inch, 2017) with macOS Monterey 12.6.2 (21G320).
I don't know when it started but there's a problem I have since some months:
Sometimes ...
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How can I stop loading external images in Mail.app?
I get a ton of spam every day and it makes me crazy that to mark it a spam or delete it I have to select the email, which opens it and loads all its images.
We all know spam emails contain distant ...
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How do I get rid of Genieo from my MacBook Pro?
I am trying to get rid of Genieo which accidentally got installed on my MacBook Pro, when I considered using jEdit. I followed their Download link which appears to be on sourceforge, when the ...
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How are these Chinese spam iCloud Calendar/Reminders invitations sent to me? [duplicate]
Recently, I’ve received a couple of spam event invitations in Calendar on my Mac. The most recent had only Chinese text, and recurred at 5:46am every day.
I am able to decline these by clicking on ...
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How can I report spam about my Apple ID
I received a spam email that pretends that I have to validate my Apple ID account information.
Our automated system was recently unable to validate your details and therefor we require you to ...
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Does marking e-mails as spam help other Mac users?
Sometimes there's a spam e-mail in my inbox. I just have to click the spam button and the e-mail will get moved to the Junk folder. Some emails even land in the Junk folder automatically.
I assume ...
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How do I stop loading images in Junk mail folder in Mail.app 6.6 with Gmail
I have setup Mail.app to use my Gmail account. Gmail has a spam filter that works excellent for me. But I sometimes check the Junk mailbox in Mail to see if something got there by accident.
When I go ...
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How to block a range or list of phone numbers [duplicate]
I get spam calls that begin with the same 6 digits as my own number. It's always a different number so I cant individually block them. Is there a way to block a whole list or a range of numbers?
The ...
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Junk mail doesn't get automatically deleted
This is happening with Mail.app 6.6 on OS X 10.8.5, but has been going on for a few OS X versions.
In Mail.app, my account settings specify to delete junk mail after one day. Except it never gets ...
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Clicked on a "bad link" in an email: do I need to worry about malware/virus getting into my iPhone?
First, I feel kind of dumb -- I know never to click on questionable links. But a friend* sent me an email message to my iPhone 11 (iOS 17.4.1) with a link to a website with a picture of them. They'...
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How can a spammer create an email that can't be deleted on an ipad mail app from an imap server?
My mum received a piece of spam, that could not be deleted or moved on her iPad using the mail app. It was only removed after deleting the account within the mail app, and recreating it.
Question:
Is ...
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How to make Apple Watch Stop SMS/Message Notifications from Unknown Senders?
I receive a lot of SMS/Message Scams (perhaps 3 or 4 per day). I assume it's related to something like the flubot virus. I like turning the option under settings - notifications messages - customize ...
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Is there a way to let Mail always mark the messages coming from a domain as spam?
I keep getting emails from a domain, which always use the same email address; every time I mark them as junk in Mail, but Mail keeps showing those email in my inbox.
Is there a way to force Mail to ...
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Suspicious Calendar Events, Spam Phone Calls, and Outgoing Messages—Has my iPhone been hacked?
Has my iPhone been hacked?
Part I: The FaceTime Call
Yesterday evening, after turning on Do Not Disturb mode for the night, my phone begin to ring (an incoming FaceTime call) with a ringtone I have ...
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El Capitan Mail 9.1: Disable remote content loading for junk mail only
Is there a way to disable the remote content loading only for messages marked as junk? I am aware that I can disable for all messages via Preferences, however I always want to show remote content on ...
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How Can I Trace the Origin of Outbound Spam Mail in Mavericks Server?
My Mavericks Server mail server has been compromised and has been sending reams of Nigerian royalty scam emails out. Where can I find log files which will enable me to track down the IP address these ...
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send non-delivery notification
I am fairly sure MobileMe (and possibly Mail.App) had a feature which allowed you to send a non-delivery notification for an email. This is possibly the best way to battle spam, however I can not find ...
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How can I move junk emails on my iPad without displaying the message body?
One reason I don't like using my iPad for email is that I can't find a way to move a junk message without its message body being automatically displayed when selected. While viewing a mailbox, tapping ...
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Why is Apple Mail loading remote content in Spam Messages?
For a while now, likely including and pre-Big Sur, whenever I actually go through my Spam box message-by-message, when I click on one message is initially loads with the spam bar, the off yellow bar ...
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How to block senders in Messages app on Mac OS X? How to mark as spam?
Getting many junk texts during election season.
Messages come to both my iPhone and MacBook Pro (connected via my iCloud account).
I'm not seeing any way to mark messages as spam, nor to block ...
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Receiving spam from myself
For the last few weeks, I keep getting the same spam message sent by my iCloud account to my iCloud account. I'm not seeing any other weird behavior in my iCloud.
I did change my linked email to a ...
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"App of the Day is a feature of Pet Match" on each page of Safari
Just today-yesterday I started to see the following text almost on each second page I open in Safari. How to disable this?
"App of the Day is a feature of Pet Match and uses visual search ...
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Getting spam on my Apple email from just one company
I have an email address that I only use for official communication with the Apple Corporation. I have no phone and have only used this address when registering my iPad and the payment mechanism for ...
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How can I disable sound for incoming calls but NOT for notifications?
I don't know why but a lot of spammers have my phone number and I'm getting called every day. I can't block their phone numbers because they use a new one every day. However, I use my phone with Slack ...
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How do I stop email addresses from spam autocompleting in Apple Mail?
Every single time I open an email to address to my mom, I see this, and absolutely nothing I've tried will get rid of it:
This is absolutely ridiculous. I don't want to see porn spam in my auto ...
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AppleMail can not remove specific emails
I'm trying to delete obvious (virus, spam, scam) email anyway from Apple's Mail.app.
Getting error: File 7936.emlx could not be opened, because the file doesn't exist.
That's rough translate from ...
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What is this text message, and how worried should I be?
The following text message popped up on my iPhone, and it doesn't seem to be coming from the Message app or any other apps on the phone. Obviously this is a spam. But which app is showing this message,...
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Spam on iMessage - What are my options?
A person unknown to me got hold of my Apple ID (email) which is registered with iMessage. While as I understand, there should be no harm in some stranger having access to my email address (apart from ...
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How do I report a spam/fake radio station in the list of iTunes internet radio?
This radio station doesn't play and is just an advertisement for another service. It doesn't play any music. It only asks you to visit their web site. How do I report it?
Chillout Beats Live365 -...
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Does Mail Quick Look follow redirects when viewing webpages?
When a phishing email presents a link, they often send you to a webpage that redirects you to another webpage that they harvest your data from. Does the Quick Look feature in Mail follow these ...
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Applescript search and delete specific Mac Text Messages
Hackers have daily targeted my Mac Messages app. I get a dozen or so messages daily from similar but slightly differing handles.
For example:
All of the handles using an email address has ...
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How do I change the Junk folder on the iPhone?
My mail provider puts spam into a folder called "Spam". On my Mac, I've configured Mac Mail to use this folder when I use the "Move to Junk" action. But if I try the same from the iPhone, it creates ...
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My Mac is sending spam emails
I do not think this is mere spoofing, and I do not think it's exactly like Receiving spam from myself
Here is a diff of a test email I sent to myself(on the left), and the spam email(on the right).
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AppleScript to clean spam in Messages
I get a lot of spam in my iMessage, such gamble, sex etc.
On my iPhone, it can be filtered into a separate column.
But on my Mac, there is no way to filter messages from unknown senders, which is ...
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Names removed from Mac Mail VIP list are sent to Junk
I do not use the VIP list in my Mac Mail (Version 12.2). It's just not how I organize my mail — not how I roll.
And yet somehow, I accidentally added my wife to the VIP list.
It was very easy to ...
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Is there a way to know which rule filtered an email?
My Mail.app has at least 100 rules with thousands of conditions and sometimes I get mail filtered that was not supposed to be filtered.
All my filters work by moving unwanted stuff to the trash.
Is ...
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Is there a way to exclude certain sites from search results in Safari?
I would like to make sure that junk websites (like SparkNotes when I search for Shakespeare info, or Pinterest when I search for images) don't appear in my search results in Google or any search ...
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How do I block SMS text spam?
I open my Mac's message app (I also get the text on my iPhone, iPad, & Apple Watch), and wish to add this caller to my "blocked" contact, but don't see how to do this. Some of my SMS text spam ...
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How to report spam that appeared in Messages on iPhone marked "Text Message" & thus sent via carrier (e.g. AT&T) NOT Apple, & NOT from a phone #?
How do I report spam like this, which appeared in Messages on my iPhone? My carrier is AT&T. As I understand it, we can tell from the screen shot (because of the "Text Message") that my ...
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Does receiving spam iMessages / FaceTime calls indicate my account is compromised?
I have a question and a story, since things aren't completely clear in my mind how iMessage and FaceTime work.
If someone sends me an iMessage / FaceTime call, does it mean they have other contact ...
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How to stop receiving spam emails from Apple?
Over the last couple of weeks, I have received several spam emails from Apple trying to get me to sign up for Apple Arcade or Apple Fitness+. It's very disheartening but not at all surprising that a ...
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Gmail MSGS sent as text MSGS
I’m receiving texts to my phone that are from a gmail email account and not from a phone number.
Any ideas on how to block them or how to move the into the spam folder?
The Gmail email addresses are ...
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Avoiding Spam attribution for video alarm notification in Mail.app
I had been searching for years to avoid my own camera video alarm to be placed into spam by my Mail spam filter.
I finally understand the problem and have found a solution so I share it here.
The ...
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How do I prevent spam from appearing in Messages on iOS?
The Messages app on iOS has a feature that seems intended to prevent spam messages from appearing in the list of messages I see by default: choosing to filter on "Known" senders only. I'd ...
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Opened a zip file in a spam email which created a folder in the /net folder
I accidentally opened a zip file from a spam email. There is a text file in the zip file which I have also clicked to view. Later, I checked that this file has the following content:
/net/us.e-fax....
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How to efficiently mark mail as spam before reviewing it in Mac OS X Mail.app?
If my ISP marks an email as spam, and moves it to the spam folder before the Mac OS X Mail.app sees it, Mail.app does not mark these emails as spam.
This wouldn’t be too bad if there was a way for me ...
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Spam from NY Times & WSJ top stories notifications on iPhone
A while ago, my wife and I started seeing news story alerts on our iPhones on the lock screen. We didn't think much about it.
But now these notifications are spaming us daily with garbage news ...
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