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Originally Posted by daniel200
How to resolve this is very dependent upon the email client that you are using. Google, apple, microsoft and others all have different methods to help reduce spam. So it would be helpful if you provided the email clients you are working with
Gmail provides the ability to easily add custom filters that will effectively filter out junk mail … For example, you can easily filter out (and send to junk) any email that has the words “harbor freight” or “kohl’s winner” in the subject field (or the message body or the from field). I find this much more effective than blocking domains
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I get those in clusters - sometimes I won't see one for a couple of weeks, then all of a sudden I get 10 every day for a week. Filtering out "harbor freight" won't help, because they spoof and use alt-keyboard or pixelated fake font graphics for the name, or misspell on purpose.
I'm absolutely positive it's because I've clicked on ads and/or sponsored posts, in the past. I don't do that anymore but the damage is done.
I have eight different e-mail addresses. One I use exclusively for "rewards cards" from various stores. That way - I know it's all spam anyway, and I don't ever have to read any of them.
I use one almost exclusively for things like doctors offices, the banks my credit cards are affiliated with, and so on. Things that actually matter.
Three more for a game I play and was on staff for, for a few years. I never get spam on any of those, because I don't use those e-mails for anything else, at all, ever. No store, or online shop, or Amazon, or anything else, has those e-mail addresses, so they can't sell them to anyone else.