Wortless spam filter

[pcnerd]

This is my second complaint.

Your so-called spam filter is worthless. It is stupid. It is retarded.

It consistently & repeatedly puts spam into my inbox even though I consistently & repeatedly click on "spam". Likewise, it consistently & repeatedly puts e-mails that are not spam into the spam folder even though I consistently & repeatedly click on "not spam".

There's no point in having a worthless, retarded spam filter.

I suggest that everyone who reads this post & who agrees with me that the spam filter is worthless add a comment. I hope that there will be hundreds or, better yet, thousands of complaints about the so-called "spam filter". Maybe then, Yahoo will do something about the "spam filter".

[tns2]

Are you using yahoo's or verizon's spam filter.  Peronally not familiar with the Yahoo one but I thought most people found it better than the Verizon one.  Yes the Verizon one needs work.

[pcnerd]

I don't know if I am using the Yahoo or the Verizon FIOS spam filter.  It is the filter that comes with my FIOS internet access. Tonight, there were about 20 pieces of spam in my inbox & 1 e-mail in the spam folder that is not spam. I'm sick & tired of clicking on "spam" in my inbox. What do I & others have to do in order to get rid of the worthless, retarded, stupid "spam" filter? I'm sure that there are many others that hate the "spam" filter as much as I do.

[tns2]

If its the Verizon one, you can click on your email settings and one of the options their is for turning off the email filter. (settings/emailsettings/spam detector)

Of course its really not completely useless.  It does stop some SPAM.  More of concern is the email that is not spam.  If its from a particular user you can set that user as trusted when you mark the message as notspam.

[jdjeff318]

As the original poster suggests, the spam filter is useless.  The other thing that is useless is the instructions putting the burden on the paying customer to stop spam.  This issues resides on the email server, hence internal to the company.  No matter how you spell it, this spam is reaching it's intended destination.  And verizon won't do a {word filter avoidance} thing about it.  I'm sick of hearing these **bleep** solutions.  Everything points to Verizon either making it happen or allowing it to happen.  None of the free services have any problems sending spam to the spam folder....and with no user intervention.  PERIOD.

[mad_user]

I Agree, the spam filter is useless. I must mark 50 e-mails/week as spam and they keep coming back. Do you know what else is useless? Try the e-mail filter, it's another useless product. They allow you to block a e-mail if a phase  in the   "From, To or Subject" appears in your e-mail. The problem is, the e-mail spam keeps changing their e-mail address and subject content. Verizon could be smarter and give you more tools for blocking unwanted e-mails but they make money on all this spam and are part of the problem.

[timandkath]

I think that 10 spams a day that are the same is a unacceptable, wouldn't you say?

[timandkath]

You have too low of a tolerance.

[reyahtbot]

I never used to get any spam in my VZ email, but in the last few months I'm now getting over 100 per day, and it seems to be getting worse.

So, one of two things happened recently, either some unscrupulous spamming site now has my email address (probably due to the Target breach), OR, this thing just doesn't work.

I'm thinking the first is likely, but the second is definite.  I mark the same spam daily as spam and there is new spam with the same subjects in my inbox the next day. It's getting old.

It also sucks because I've had the same email address since GTE in Texas became Verizon, where my @gte.net address was migrated to @verizon.net and up until very recently I've never had a spam problem.

I guess it's time to move on and get a new address... 

[spamattic]

Yep, after years, I did.

[JOSEm441]

A free option is to use a 3rd party email client to  manipulate your verizon email (as well as other clients). I use zoho mail free edition which is has many more features, and an excellent SPAM filter that works 100% for me. You can blacklist domains as well as individual email addresses. Plus you get a free email account. If is easy to setup and the pages load very quickly. www.zoho.com/mail

[Hobnob123]

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@JOSEm441 wrote:

...I use zoho mail free edition which is has many more features, and an excellent SPAM filter that works 100% for me. You can blacklist domains as well as individual email addresses. Plus you get a free email account. It is easy to setup and the pages load very quickly. www.zoho.com/mail

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Thanks for this, JOSEm441.  I actually signed up for ZOHO's free Domain-based business version, and it's terrific!  It's highly configurable, which I really appreciate, although I would expect the Free Personal Account version (listed below the business plan versions on the sign-up page) to be simpler to set up.  I had never heard of ZOHO, but I've since seen reviews where they are so highly recommended, and am really glad you pointed me in their direction!

[chewy611]

The problem is aslo that I have my VZ mail being pushed to my phone.  So I get a bunch of spam mail sent to my phone.  I have tried to tag them as spam mail in the VZ web application, but I still recieve most of the same spam messages.  

[tshine]

I couldn't agree more, if the spam filter is not fixed I am junking this and going with optimum. You can't even get help to deal with it from Verizon, which leads me to believe they must be benefitting from this nonsense

[Hortensia1]

I agree the spam filter is not up to par.  Yahoo, Gmail and Live spam filters are superior.  I have identified emails as spam and they still end up in the verizon inbox in the same format.

[Peganmn]

I'm starting to think Verizon owns stock in the Replacement Windows company as well as all the others that spam me daily. 

Really, how hard could it possibly be for Verizon to figure out that I am recieving the same email every day with the same subject title and it's spam.  If I mark it as spam there ought to be a response from ebay to the title alone of that email even if it is coming from another address.   There are days when I receive four or five spam emails with the title Replacement Windows.  How many times do I have to mark it as spam or forward it to Verizon for SOMEONE to figure it out???  I've tried creating a filter based on the Subject but THE FILTERS DO NOT WORK.

[Peganmn]

Ebay, verizon, they're both equally worthless.  But that's another story.

Seriously since I started forwarding individual emails the nunber of spam emails I receive daily has doubled.  And they're all for the same products over and over and over again every single day. There has to be a way verizon, why aren't you trying to figure out what that way is???

[rvahokie]

My Verizon spam filter used to work fairly well but in just the last three or four weeks it has become worthless.  I am now getting a bunch of spam emails  and they are also being pushed through to my cell phone.  I never had this problem before.  Has Verizon changed something that is making the spam filter much less effective?

[tns2]

Nope.  Just more and "better" spammers. 

As I have mentioned before, I have two FIOS accounts each with an email.  The older one gets tons of spam, about 2/3 stopped by the spam filter but about 20-30 a day that are currently getting through.  My newer one that is the one I now use has only gotten 2 spam messages getting through in two years.

[JRTEMT]

DITTO

when I complained last year, techs said" create a new email address"....done.   this month over 115 spam messages inbox of secondary user, 54 primary user. 

Easy to id as SUBJECT LINE has text followed by a number!

Please inform Sandy Miller that I don't need a"workers needed from home$47@hr" email 7 x daily.....I like being a trophy wife.

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@tns_2 wrote:

Nope.  Just more and "better" spammers. 

As I have mentioned before, I have two FIOS accounts each with an email.  The older one gets tons of spam, about 2/3 stopped by the spam filter but about 20-30 a day that are currently getting through.  My newer one that is the one I now use has only gotten 2 spam messages getting through in two years.

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[eljefe2]

Add me to the list of users who can't understand why the Verizon spam filter isn't better.

I've recently started getting messages that are very obviously spam yet they're delivered to my inbox.  "From" is often "Cool" and Subject "Buy Watches Rolex," or "Viagra," etc. etc.

I don't get why Verizon's filter doesn't see these as the spam they are and block them.