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tchart

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#213967 21-Apr-2017 10:17
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Over the last week or so we've noticed an increase of SPAM emails on our Vodafone hosted ihug email account.

 

Funnily the emails are tagged with [SPAM] in the subject but they are still appearing in the inbox.

 

Has anyone else experienced this? Has a change occurred on the Vodafone systems?

 

Thanks


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  #1768362 21-Apr-2017 10:45
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I've got an old (rarely used) clearnet email account that has been receiving 2 or 3 spam messages a day in the last couple of weeks.  (Not tagged with [SPAM] though.)





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  #1768420 21-Apr-2017 12:21
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Yes, have had this issue for a number of weeks. Vodafone is aware (about me, as well as number of other users using clearnet, paradise emails) and currently looking into fixing it.


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  #1768422 21-Apr-2017 12:23
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floydbloke:

 

I've got an old (rarely used) clearnet email account that has been receiving 2 or 3 spam messages a day in the last couple of weeks.  (Not tagged with [SPAM] though.)

 

 

The issue I'm (and perhaps the others) experiencing is SPAM gone from 1 to 2 emails right up to 50-60 emails a day.




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  #1768450 21-Apr-2017 13:21
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IMHO, I would much rather receive them "spam" emails, over the past few days, I've had around 20 emails marked spam which are obviously spam AND some emails from other I haven't heard from in years that arn't spam, so like it is at the moment it is letting genuine emails arrive.

 

 


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  #1768483 21-Apr-2017 14:13
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StevieT:

Yes, have had this issue for a number of weeks. Vodafone is aware (about me, as well as number of other users using clearnet, paradise emails) and currently looking into fixing it.



Thanks fingers crossed they can sort it.

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  #1768530 21-Apr-2017 16:42
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tchart:
StevieT:

 

Yes, have had this issue for a number of weeks. Vodafone is aware (about me, as well as number of other users using clearnet, paradise emails) and currently looking into fixing it.

 



Thanks fingers crossed they can sort it.

 

I hope so! I don't like opening Outlook in the morning to find ~30 emails, with only 2 - 4 genuine ones.


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  #1768663 22-Apr-2017 00:43
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I'm not getting more spam.. but emails i have subbed to are suddenly receiving a  "spam" tag on them..

 

 


 
 
 

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  #1768664 22-Apr-2017 00:47
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same here to

 

i get a few news letters from countdown warehouse etc but they are marked as spam


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  #1768711 22-Apr-2017 09:25
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Ihug emails here and yes, am getting several Spam come through daily .... they are mostly marked SPAM ...


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  #1771655 28-Apr-2017 08:42
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tchart:
StevieT:

 

Yes, have had this issue for a number of weeks. Vodafone is aware (about me, as well as number of other users using clearnet, paradise emails) and currently looking into fixing it.

 



Thanks fingers crossed they can sort it.

 

 

 

Hi tchart

 

I was advised some days ago that I should notice a decrease of SPAM hitting my email account, which was true. However, yesterday and so far today it seems I'm getting as much spam as I was before raising the issue with Vodafone. Is that the same situation for you?


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  #1771659 28-Apr-2017 08:45
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Ihug here --- Spam emails have pretty much stopped over the last couple of days. Fingers crossed. :)


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  #1771672 28-Apr-2017 09:23
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Threads like this always make me very happy I ditched ISP email years ago (hell, I think I could almost say "decades" ago... well, a decade at least ;-) )





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  #1771680 28-Apr-2017 09:37
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lisarog:

 

Ihug here --- Spam emails have pretty much stopped over the last couple of days. Fingers crossed. :)

 

 

Same here. SPAM has stopped (for now)


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  #1771762 28-Apr-2017 11:19
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tchart:

 

lisarog:

 

Ihug here --- Spam emails have pretty much stopped over the last couple of days. Fingers crossed. :)

 

 

Same here. SPAM has stopped (for now)

 

 

Darn, I wish that is the situation with me. I just opened Outlook and got 12 more messages. Outlook was opened previously about 30 mins ago and at that time I got around 6.


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I am drowning in SPAM the initial surge quietened down but today I received approx 3 score and 10, too many to return to missedspam@paradise.net.nz so I just deleted them.  The SPAM situation is really bad currently and Voda need to address the issue. 


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