Anyone else finding this to be the case?
I am suffering from the same. Before the switch, I was getting an average of 10 spams a day, now I get more than 60 daily. The only reason I can think of is that someone at AOL sold our email addresses. It is impossible to block these spams because the source of most of the spams is not available.
THIS IS TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@TheBoozer wrote: I am suffering from the same. Before the switch, I was getting an average of 10 spams a day, now I get more than 60 daily. The only reason I can think of is that someone at AOL sold our email addresses. It is impossible to block these spams because the source of most of the spams is not available. THIS IS TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have had three Verizon email accounts for over ten years now, the amount of spam has varied up and down over the years, for reasons I have never understood - I would get none, then some, then lots, then back down, then up again, etc. In the last year or so the spam has been pretty high, since I migrated a week or two ago it really seems about the same, and for sure I am seeing the same subjects that I previously saw.
Of course you can always get an email address on some other service (like Gmail), switch to that, and see if it is any better.
Short of that however, my suggestion is to create a filter that has a bcc: setting that looks for your email address and if it finds it to put the email into the spam folder. Of course that means that legitmate emails that you might get via a bcc: would also go there, but my experience is that one heck of a lot of the spam I get is going into my spam folder due to that filter and relatively few legitimate emails do. Using that kind of filter also means that you need to check the spam folder regularly in your webmail to find and move to the inbox anything caught incorrectly, but you probably need to be doing that anyway. This is working very well for me, might or might not for you.
Another option is to create filters based on a word or words in the subject or the body of the email, if you can identify some. I have found that trying to set up and use filters based on the From: email address is an exercise in futility that I have pretty much given up on.
Whatever you do, I suggest you not automatically delete any spam caught by custom filters because if you do for sure something you really want to get will get lost.
Hope this helps.
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Actuall, I have a gmail, a yahoo and an outlook email accounts. I do get a few spams in those accounts, but the incredible amount of spam I am talking about is in my @verizon.net and the increase took place after the switch from Verizon to AOL.
Using a filter is difficult because the the spam emails has my name as the "From:" and I can't filyer my name!
The reason I stated that our email addresses have been sold is that the spam emails content is not the same and the emails are coming from different source. Trying to block all those sources will take forever.
@TheBoozer wrote: @Actuall, I have a gmail, a yahoo and an outlook email accounts. I do get a few spams in those accounts, but the incredible amount of spam I am talking about is in my @verizon.net and the increase took place after the switch from Verizon to AOL. Using a filter is difficult because the the spam emails has my name as the "From:" and I can't filyer my name! The reason I stated that our email addresses have been sold is that the spam emails content is not the same and the emails are coming from different source. Trying to block all those sources will take forever.
@Actuall, I have a gmail, a yahoo and an outlook email accounts. I do get a few spams in those accounts, but the incredible amount of spam I am talking about is in my @verizon.net and the increase took place after the switch from Verizon to AOL.
Have you actually tried setting up a filter for your name in the From field? I don't see why you can't, I tested with my email address there and it worked just fine, but I did not test all possible ways my name might appear in that field.
I agree that trying to block emails from all of those sources is virtually impossible. But setting up filters, rather than trying to block, using the content of certain fields or actual content in the messages can frequently catch emails from a lot of different sources with just one filter. One simple example: I get probably 2 spam emails/day about a bogus Costco gift card, every one I think from different sources, but the bcc: filter catches every one of them and puts them in the spam filter where it is easy to remove them (with all of the others).
I'm sorry that you are getting so much more spam. I guess I am maybe just lucky (so far anyway) but it hasn't really increased for me. And like I said, my experience with Verizon over 10 years is that the volume of spam has gone dramatically up and down multiple times, so hopefully yours will head downward soon.
Good luck.
Thanks, Verizon! Since their switch to AOL Mail, my "Inbox" has been saturated with SPAM messages; estimated average is 80 per day. And what is even more irritating is several messages that were not SPAM were sent to my SPAM folder. With my original Verizon filters settings, I rarely had SPAM messages in my "Inbox". With my AOL filters settings, no SPAM messages are filtered and sent to my SPAM folder (except for a rare few messages). The AOL filters are in serious need of improvements. First, the AOL filters need to work, period. The AOL filters also need a NOT setting; e.g., message's TO field does not contain my e-mail address, and "Inbox" needs to be added to the "Move to folder" list so messages that are erroneously moved to the "Spam" folder can be moved to the "Inbox" folder. Please, Verizon, fix the AOL Mail filters. Thank you.
Are ya'll getting SPAM SPAM or is it legit company email/ads (that you never asked for)? I ask becasue I also started getting more of it after the port over. I recall reading somewhere that part of the move included customizing marketting to you (us). I think it was a fine print kind of thing that stuck in my head. I was able to opt out and it happened pretty quick.Although I am also getting legit SPAM that I hadn't had a problem with in the past.The Verizon/AOL port-over has been bad news all the way around...
@JKennedy wrote: Are ya'll getting SPAM SPAM or is it legit company email/ads (that you never asked for)? I ask becasue I also started getting more of it after the port over. I recall reading somewhere that part of the move included customizing marketting to you (us). I think it was a fine print kind of thing that stuck in my head. I was able to opt out and it happened pretty quick.Although I am also getting legit SPAM that I hadn't had a problem with in the past.The Verizon/AOL port-over has been bad news all the way around...
Probably 80% spam spam, from sources like *@*.info, none of which I care about seeing.
Bad news? Not for me, I have ported 4 email accounts over just fine, all of my filters came over, and they or the builtin AOL spam filters themselves have been catching probably 98% of all of the stuff I don't want, and very few of the things I really do want to receive. I have added a couple of additional filters to catch some things I never bothered to catch while using Verizon email, and they work just fine.
No issues here at all with AOL mail, at least not yet.
@catmcgowan wrote: Thanks, Verizon! Since their switch to AOL Mail, my "Inbox" has been saturated with SPAM messages; estimated average is 80 per day. And what is even more irritating is several messages that were not SPAM were sent to my SPAM folder. With my original Verizon filters settings, I rarely had SPAM messages in my "Inbox". With my AOL filters settings, no SPAM messages are filtered and sent to my SPAM folder (except for a rare few messages). The AOL filters are in serious need of improvements. First, the AOL filters need to work, period. The AOL filters also need a NOT setting; e.g., message's TO field does not contain my e-mail address, and "Inbox" needs to be added to the "Move to folder" list so messages that are erroneously moved to the "Spam" folder can be moved to the "Inbox" folder. Please, Verizon, fix the AOL Mail filters. Thank you.
A few thoughts:
1) The AOL filters work just fine for me, I have no idea why they wouldn't work for you. Can you give us a couple of examples of ones that don't work?
2) I agree about the NOT provision, but the simple solution to that (for your email address only) is to add your email address to the bcc: filter, because I am pretty sure the only way you would be getting the email at all without your email in the To: field would be for your email address to be in the bcc: field (which you will never see).
3) Agreed, Inbox needs to be added to the move to folder list. Interestingly enough, a filter I had in Verizon email that had that setting ported over just fine, still shows inbox. Don't know if it will actually work though.
4) While AOL is a Verizon company, I don't think Verizon itself is going to do anything. Rather, I think you need to click on Options and select Send Us Your Feedback on the AOL webmail screen to even possibly get any attention to your requests.
Just some thoughts, good luck, FWIW AOL mail is working just fine for me so far (surprisingly).
Justin, I have not been changed over to the AOL EMail yet. I don't know if I will be in the future. But I have this *@*.info spam problem and so does my daughter whcih is a sub-account on my account. Will this filter trick work with us who are still at *.verizon.net?
@rdunkleenr2d wrote: Justin, I have not been changed over to the AOL EMail yet. I don't know if I will be in the future. But I have this *@*.info spam problem and so does my daughter whcih is a sub-account on my account. Will this filter trick work with us who are still at *.verizon.net?
Unfortunately I don't know. I don't have an unmigrated account left so I cannot test, but I DON'T THINK that the Verizon email will accept the wildcard. Maybe someone else here knows, or you can always just try it and see if the dialog will accept that format. Sorry......
As to you eventually being migrated to AOL, I bet you will. I don't know where you are located, but Verizon owns AOL, and I suspect they have decided it is silly and expensive to have two separate email systems in the same corporation. So I think they just made a decision for AOL Mail to live, and Verizon email to eventually die. We are the first to migrate just because we are being sold off at the end of this month. Interestingly those of us who have migrated still have ***@verizon.net email addresses, and supposedly we will be able to keep them forever.
No problem. I went ahead and started creating filters using the subject as the filter. The EMAILs all seem to have the same Subject for the most part. I did find something interesting though. I was just going to make a list of the Subject lines do I would open the EMAIL and copy the subject line. A couple of the subject lines had control characters enbedded in them like CR and a page break or that was what MS word thought they were. So I just coppied the subject line and went right into settings - filter and just pasted the subject line in the filter field.
Hope this works. Thanks for the info though.
Yes! The amount of spam has increased since the switch to AOL. Most of mine involves drugs. AOL should be filtering this stuff but instead appears to be promoting it. If they can make a dime by any method they will. Verizon is criminal for cancelling email service with offering a fee reduction. I wonder if the DEA can do something about the drug ads?
I can't imagine any email generating more spam than Verizon! My primary account & my sub account emails are nothing BUT spam. It's impossible to find anything important in there because it's buried in spam.
I've had this address so long that @bellatlantic.net gets to me. I was receiving the email through dialup at that address, then DSL. Now they're coming very close to selling me on switching to the cable company after almost 20 years of loyalty. I knew that dumping us into AOL for mail was going to cause problems. Switching over was several hours on the phone with customer service representatives - only BECAUSE I've been with them so long. They don't know that old accounts have different usernames vs login names - yup, they're 2 different things. New accounts they're the same string of characters, old accounts they're not. Completely confused.
Now that it's moved over the spam level has increased 5-fold. I shouldn't need to do this much work to set up filters. AOL must be selling us out to the Internet ghettos.
VERIZON / AOL / Whatever you call yourselves, DO SOMETHING!!!!! You're on the cusp of losing all of my business - not just Internet. If I change, you lose TV, phone, and cell too. I'm sure I'm not alone in the outrage over this.
The best way to control spam in aol is to use the sender filters you set it to
then list your contacts.
Good Day Fios/AOL folks!
I ahve to say AOL customer support is horrible. I have registered my email@verizon.net domain so I could keep that email forever. Now today in Outlook I am receiving email to email.AOL.com with nothing but spam. I never signed up for nor want anything to do with AOL. A call to customer support for 35 minutes with a condescending agent tells me that I don't have paid support for 24x7 AOL tech services but for $4.99 a month she can connect me. What the heck have I been paying Fios for over 10 years for and through no choice of my own have to now use AOL servers. Needless to say her supervisor was not available and she still tries selling me on subscribing for support. I did NOT sign up for any AOL.COM mail account so why am I receiving spam in my email.verizon.net account using Outlook as my mail client. AOL support is horrible and I have left Fios because of it and the lousy answers telling me I have a free account and therefore not elgible for support! 10 years with Fios and paying a load of money every month for service gets you a "free" AOL account with no tech support! Beware of Fios and I can only imagine how great service will be when Yahoo mail is added into the no support system. No wonder Verizon is having customers split! I did and much happier!!!
I guess each persons experience is different.
I am getting almost no spam since I was migrated to aol over a year ago (FL Frontier customer). And the spam I report is not getting through after I report it.
Also, as said, rules are more flexible then the old Verizon rules.
I know this is an old thread but I'm sick and tired of seeing tons of spam emails in my spam folder. I rarely get them in my Inbox but that's not the point. I have Yahoo, Yandex, and Outlook -- and they all seem to be able to keep spam out of my Inbox AND my spam folder. But not AOL. Lately I've been getting blasted daily with McAfee garbage, and it's a nuisance. I love FIOS but I hate having to deal with AOL for anything Verizon/FIOS-related. It's amateurish and annoying and unacceptable. And I have NO DESIRE WHATSOEVER to waste my time creating filters when that's something AOL should be doing for their customers.
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