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Re: Minimizing exposure to phishing attempts

 

I agree with Randy, if you are getting hundreds of spam every day.

If you only get a few, there is a good built-in method, but it takes time and repetition to become effective. It is the email filter that Apple has provided for age. BUT you have to train it. It is mostly hidden behind the ¡°curtain¡±. If it is working, you will find email in your Junk folder.

This only works on accounts you have set up in Apple¡¯s Mail. So you can¡¯t use web mail, or expect it to work on accounts not read in Mail.

It is not an overnight fix, and it does make the occasional false positive. In my case, it flags as junk, random email from groups.io, and a very rare other email. So, without opening any, I quickly scroll and scan thru the Junk folder. Then normally, I select all and send them to Trash and empty the trash.

How often do I have to do this? A couple of times a week. It takes about a minute. I get batches of 20-40 emails at a time, mostly to an e-ddress I used on resumes, listed on LinkedIn. Most have similar formats.

And the Filter in Apple Mail is free.

Brent

On my iPhone Xr

On Dec 14, 2024, at 06:49, Randy B. Singer via groups.io <randy@...> wrote:

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On Dec 14, 2024, at 5:18 AM, Sew Walker via groups.io <sewnyes@...> wrote:

How do I block email. I get many unwanted and clicking unsubscribe does no good and sometimes it tells me the site is not available?
The easiest and best way, IMHO, to deal with spam is to purchase and install SpamSieve, follow the directions for training it (easy enough to do), and then sit back and watch as it almost magically detects and directs all of your spam into a ¡°Spam¡± folder for you to delete at your convenience.

SpamSieve ($30)


Review:


SpamSieve is the first thing that I install on every new Macintosh that I buy. Any other plan for dealing with spam is a waste of time and energy. Nothing else comes close to doing as good a job, while leaving the ultimate choice on whether to save or delete suspected spam up to you.

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Randy B. Singer
Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)

Essential But Hard To Find Macintosh Software and Advice

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