How do you manage filtering spam e-mails? I use multiple e-mail accounts (hotmail, gmail, etc), one for professional things, one for games/etc, one for a uni account that I don't use much, one for Flickr/etc. I use the e-mail app on iOS to access all emails in one spot.

My hotmail account keeps getting fake paypal scam emails, ebay scam emails, etc, etc. Just nonstop. I'm getting them about 1 every 5 hours. Hotmail, for whatever reason, doesn't send them straight to junk (since I guess however they're sent, they look authentic enough to the hotmail spam filter to go through as not spam).

How do I stop this shit from coming through? I don't want to block ebay or paypal, and hotmail shows the sender as ebay/paypal's actual sending address... so idk how to block this spam? It's just fucking relentless.

ebay and paypal are not the actual senders though.
maybe show details and actually review where its coming from.

Aha! I think I was assuming hotmail thought the actual senders were paypal/ebay/etc. As in, viewing the "From" section would just show "Service@paypal.com" or whatever.

I'm not sure why I thought that (because I already knew you can fake your short-form name to just say PayPal without viewing the actual long-form sender address).

Are there ways that spam can show the correct address, but not come from it? As in, could you get an e-mail a sender "Service@paypal.com", but it wasn't sent from that address?

Anyways, i'll go through and block these spam addresses. Although hotmail is bad about this, if they send from an address with a single number different, it'll come through

Unless you go with a private hoster or make your own email server you will always get some spam, general filters suck balls.
most of the time the addy's are picked up by spam bots that scan sites like craigslsist/kijiji, etc.
Biggest issue I've had thus far is stopping the "re: XXXXXX" emails, generic hosters all assume its a response and allows it in.

Can you learn the difference between hardware and software?

Software is my mind the tool in my trousers is hardware, comprende?

I don't get any spam mail on my gmail account. It has pretty good filters imo.

I use filtering on Google. Doesn't always work the way I want it to.

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This post was edited by NinjaSushi on Feb 23 2017 09:51am

Technically its possible if the email servers are not properly secured on a host.

The easier way to do this is by using characters in a different character set that look identical to English characters. For example Google.com has been battling a spammer/phisher using Google.com as the domain name. Only difference between the two is on the spammers variant it uses the Russian G which looks identical to a normal uppercase G. Although computers see the two as two separate characters.

I'm not the one who doesn't understand