Sudden increase in Spam

foreright · 29 Sep 2015 at 16:42

After purchasing a Windows Phone on Friday. I have suddenly been attacked with a massive increase in spam on my email account which I read from my PC.
Can anyone throw any light on what I may have registered whether unintentionally or through necessity having this phone. I have only downloaded apps through the Microsoft Store and may have furnished my email address because of the installed Outlook. But apart from that I cannot think what else I may have done.
Any ideas of how I may reverse it and/or any other way of blocking/stopping these emails. They are automatically being sent to my junk folder I assume by Virgin Media or Kasperky and I am adding them to the blocked list. But I assume that they randomly change the addresses to overcome this.
Please help.

DaleTheWhale · 29 Sep 2015 at 17:46

When you bought the phone did you write down your email address for them to use?

foreright · 29 Sep 2015 at 18:21

I used O2 and my email is already known to them. I am now thinking it may be down to VirginMedia and their new email system introduced over the last few days,. Maybe the spam filters have not been enabled. I shall have to contact them - that should be a laugh

Diddums · 29 Sep 2015 at 18:27

Vodafone will sell your details to anyone for a price. And I mean anyone.

Uhtred · 30 Sep 2015 at 07:51

Try punching your email address into Google (with quotes) and see if it shows up anywhere. I had a big increase when another forum I frequent got its database compromised. Getting a new phone might be a coincidence.

Otherwise virgin's spam filter might not be as good as Google's (not hard to believe).

ps3ud0 · 30 Sep 2015 at 09:15

Ive had the same issue and putting it down to moving from Googles framework to VMs - just loads of bloody spam email undeliverable messages since around the 25th onwards...

ps3ud0 :cool:

foreright · 30 Sep 2015 at 13:30

ps3ud0 said:
Ive had the same issue and putting it down to moving from Googles framework to VMs - just loads of bloody spam email undeliverable messages since around the 25th onwards...

ps3ud0

Are yours being highlighted red and being sent to the junk folder as mine are. If not would that be done by my Kaspersky AV as I've never seen it before.

SickAsAParrot · 1 Oct 2015 at 11:55

Same here, getting several Mailer Daemon undelivered message in my VM spam folder, from spam sent out from my address advertising weight loss products. Only started happening in the last week and i've had my lumia for a few months so I think its something to do with Virgin mucking about.

Seemed to appear at the same time as the extra re-capcha thing appeared on the VM login screen.

zpos · 1 Oct 2015 at 15:31

foreright said:
I used O2 and my email is already known to them. I am now thinking it may be down to VirginMedia and their new email system introduced over the last few days,. Maybe the spam filters have not been enabled. I shall have to contact them - that should be a laugh

I've had loads of spam recently from whatever change Virgin have done - getting so annoying that I'm considering just setting up a new email.

It's damn annoying.

foreright · 1 Oct 2015 at 19:32

zpos said:
I've had loads of spam recently from whatever change Virgin have done - getting so annoying that I'm considering just setting up a new email.

It's damn annoying.

It is all down to VM changing their platform away from Google based to their own. Alas the filter that Google provided are there no more and VM are working on how to implement their own. Although it's been known for as while the escalation has only occurred in the last few days and has spurred them into having to deal with it. The IT guys are on the case. Give them a couple of months.

zpos · 1 Oct 2015 at 19:44

OK that's good news. Guess you don't realise what goes on behind the scenes until it disappears!