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Spam addressed to me @Yahoo.com getting through to my @att.net inbox
I have an att.net email account (which I've had since prehistoric times). I do NOT have a yahooo.com account.
Yet every day my att.net inbox is flooded with spam addressed to me @yahoo.com. That's right, not @att.net, but @yahoo.com. How is that even possible? What's going on?
I've searched Yahoo's website in vain for some filter to block this misaddressed email. No help there.
Other facts: When I try to log into my account online, I keep getting told there were too many attempts so I have to go through a security routine to get access, even though I've change my password. Also, I use a Security Key on my PC to access the account through Outlook.
Thanks for any help you can offer.
ATTHelp
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232.9K Messages
2 months ago
Hi @justmoved! We completely understand your concern regarding receiving spam email to your att.net inbox, and would like to help. Let's get the assistance you require.
In order to fix this, we'd recommend you to follow this below-mentioned steps.
Remove spam from your inbox
You can also forward spam to us at abuse@att.net so we can investigate it further. Make sure you include the full header so we can find out exactly where it came from.
Unmark as spam
If a legitimate email is accidentally filtered into the spam folder, it's easy to correct:
You can also check how to create and manage filters.
Let us know if this helps.
Thank you for contacting AT&T Community Forums,
Ancy, AT&T Community Specialist.
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dataminingonsteroids
28 Messages
28 days ago
Since the data theft... I have been blasted with Spam mail - in both my primary and secondary AT/ Yahoo mailboxes - with mail that is addressed to my email addresses followed by @gmail.com, @yahoo.com AS WELL AS TO "nonsense" email addresses that appear to be those of sales and solicitation websites/ email addresses, including "donotreply" and "info@" sites. Some do not even contain an "@" within the address. These garbage email addresses DO NOT contain either of my ATT email addresses before the "@". This would indicate that ATT/Yahoo is allowing these solicitations to come from their "partners" to ATT and on to me. Now... all of my passwords/ PINs were changed when I first learned of the data breach from an independent monitoring service (months ago)... so an account breach IS NOT the issue. FOLLOWING ALL OF THE REPORTING/ DETERENT STEPS LISTED ABOVE HAVE DONE NOTHING TO STOP THIS. These steps have also included forwarding each one of these pieces of trash to BOTH ATT departments. Results?? All that I have received from both the "abuse" department and the "privacy" department are SCRIPTED return emails that constitute nothing but denials of responsibility. I will be addressing this further...
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