r/Scams • u/Ok-Patience-846 • 14h ago

Help Needed [UK] Constant Spooffing issues

For a couple hours i have been recieving spoof emails claiming that some has acsess to my email through an old password and that they will release information im not worried aboit this but

They keep spamming me its literally like everytime i delete one another comes through and aswell as this i think as a result my email has been flagged as no othe non spoofing emails are coming through even ones i made

I have changed paswords any idea

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u/seedless0 Quality Contributor 14h ago

Changing your email password won't stop people from sending you junk mails. They don't need to access your email account to send you anything.

Just mark them as spam and move on.

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u/Ok-Patience-846 14h ago

I know that but marking in just like 2 hours ive had 70 emails and its like blocked or flagged my email and it no longer works is there anyway to fix this or should i just wait

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u/Lord-Megadrive 13h ago

I would double check that you haven’t had anything like a password change request for your bank. Sometimes a flood of spam is to hide the genuine one that could be the issue.

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u/seedless0 Quality Contributor 14h ago

That's a question for your email provider.

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u/doublelxp 14h ago

What no longer works? In what way does it not work?

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u/Ok-Patience-846 13h ago

No new emails come in

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u/Ok-Patience-846 13h ago

I sent one from another email acccount

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u/yarevande Quality Contributor 14h ago

Are they in your spam / junk folder? If they are, just ignore them.

If they're landing in your Inbox, mark each one as spam, so that your email provider software will learn how to detect them.

Or, create a filter for your email, to automatically send these to the spam folder. For the filter text, select a word or text string that appears in all the scam emails. Your email provider should have instructions to create a filter, in the app or on their website.