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Old 06-03-2021, 08:28 AM
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Originally Posted by Madelaine Amee View Post
Thanks for your immediate reply to my post.

He is receiving advertising from restaurants in TV. This made him wonder to what extent his phone is vulnerable. While he and his wife were here they would go out every day on the golf cart and would use the phone to find coffee shops etc. etc. So that could be behind a lot of the ads.

He owns a small business and is continually on his phone, the ads are becoming a real aggravation.
I assume the ads come in the form of emails? If so there is a lot he can do to block spam emails.

Email services like iCloud and GMail have provisions for automatic spam/junk mail blocking, and most email clients/apps have the ability to flag email sources as spam and to block/delete them.

Even the best spam filters and blockers will still let some through, it is a constant curse. but it can be reduced to something that is workable.

I use iCloud and Apple Mail (windows and Andriod and GMail offer similar abilities) and they currently block about 200 to 300 spam/junk emails per day for me. And yet, about 2 or 3 still get through every day.