Unwanted E-mail

Question

Hello,
I am receiveing about 6 or more e-mails a day from people promoting penny stocks. I reply to these e-mails to ask to be taken off their mailing list and the e-mails come back as un deliverable. I have flagged these as junk and they go in that file, however, these nuts are sending these from new fake e-mail addresses every day. So, every day I have to mark at least 3 more as junk.
Can any thing be done about this?
M Haver

Answer 1

I reply to these e-mails to ask to be taken off their mailing list
and the e-mails come back as un deliverable.
This is a common mistake made by those unfamiliar with how spammers operate but you should not reply to spam messages (especially since the email address or reply to address provided is not valid) and never, under any circumstances select a link included with a spam message such as "click here to be removed from our mailing list".
By selecting any links included with a spam message reveals to the spammer that your email address is valid or "known good" causing even more spam to be received. Spammers trade/sell known good email addresses to other spammers creating a cycle of ever increasing spam messages received.
The same for automatically rendering all HTML received. When a spammer's message is formatted in HTML and includes any embedded images or objects that must be rendered from a remote server to be viewed and these are rendered, you are revealing to the spammer that your email address is valid or "known good".
If you automatically render all HTML and a spam message is correctly marked as Junk when received, then no included embedded images or objects will be rendered as a security feature but if such a message is not marked as Junk when received, then is it very likely you have revealed to the spammer that your email address is valid.
Go to Mail > Preferences > Viewing and deselect "Display remote images in HTML messages".
When deselected and a valid message received includes embedded images or objects that must be rendered from a remote server to be viewed, there is a Load Images button provided on a blue border just above the message header. This will protect you in case a spam message is received that is not marked as Junk and includes embedded images or objects that must be rendered from a remote server.
Check Why was I "spammed" at my .Mac Mail address? which applies to any email account and Mac OS X Mail: How HTML Email Messages Relate to Unsolicited Commercial Email ("spam") which applies to any email client such as the Mail.app.
Does your ISP or email account provider include an email address to forward spam received with long message headers shown for the received message?
My ISP includes such an email address and since the sender's computer IP address is usually provided in the long message headers for the received message, after my ISP confirms the forwarded message with long message headers shown for the received message is spam and the sender's computer IP address can be determined (which is usually the case), my ISP blocks the sender's computer IP address at the incoming mail server from being able to send messages to any email address in my ISP's domain.