SIGNAL SPAM

Most of the SPAM mail I receive is from Germany, probably due to the fact that I am registered in Germany and my internet provider is German.

Most of the SPAM is detected by my provider and directed to a SPAM folder.

Since I use Apple’s native email applications which connect to my service provider IONOS to retrieve my emails, I would not see the SPAM emails, those do not get downloaded.

However, for safety reasons, I usually log in IONOS more or less on a daily basis and erase all emails which have already been downloaded to my various electronic devices (phone, tablet, laptop & PC).

I then have the opportunity to check on the SPAM emails, hence the fact that I know that most of them are in German as mentioned earlier.

Nevertheless a few come through and end up in my standard inboxes. In such cases I do 2 things:

1. Log in to my providers IONOS and establish a rule blocking the sender of the said SPAM email + a rule identifying a few key words in the email subject and if another email with those words is identified, just block.
2. There is a new service offered by the French Government which helps fighting SPAM. This service is called Signal Spam. You have to be registered, it takes a few clicks to report such an email and you can get a lot of info on the origin, servers used etc etc.

SInce I have been reporting SPAM emails this way, the number has drastically decreased. Maybe to 1 or 2 a week, so I thought I should share this info.

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