One reason that you may get LOTS of annoying spams on Hotmail: When I signed up for Hotmail, I chose NOT to share my personal/registration info with their "partner" companies. However, sometime since then, perhaps through all the format changes happening at Hotmail, that option has been activated in my account. So, if you've been getting a sh--load of spam recently and can't figure why, that may be the reason. Do the following: 1. Go into Hotmail. 2. Click Options (to the right of the tab that says "Address Book"). 3. Click Personal Profile (in the upper left corner). 4. Scroll down to the bottom of the screen and see whether the boxes marked "Share my e-mail address" and "Share my other registration information" have been ticked. 5. Also remember to look under Member Directory also and see if the "Please enter me in the member's directory" option is ticked. Yay Microsoft! :-o
I'm not sure if that's it. I had all those options turned off and I'm still getting over 100+ pieces of spam per week.
Forget Hotmail I switched to a different email service, Hotmail is useless, I received 20 plus messages a day from diploma mills when I used Hotmail.
Good tip! I untoggled those checks, then signed in again to put it into effect. Hopefully, it will make a difference. The only surefire method I've found is to use the exclusive rather than the high filter. Unfortunately, that is only practical if you want to reserve your e-mail address for one or more selected people--period. Also, the block sender is the next best thing to uselessness, of course. Plus block sender fills up fast. Some people are shifting over to Yahoo mail, but I don't know if that is really spamless or not.
Yahoo Mail is far far better, but not perfect. That said: Yahoo is my primary e-mail address, although I've been shifting some of my stuff over to my mac.com address. (But you need a mac to get one of those.)
Not Working Jim, I tried the instructions that you posted above and it seems like I got even more! There are a couple that I went in and put "Unsubscribe" and immediately they sent me more and more emails! There must be some kind of Spam Filter in hotmail...I don't see how they can handle all that traffic...the spammers are probably their sponsors@!!
Re: Not Working My understanding is that unless it's a place that you ACTUALLY subscribed to in the first place, you should not try to unsubscribe. That will just tell these spammers that your address is actually a good address and you will be placed on active cleaned spammed lists and you'll get even more spam.
