Spam on my FiOS internet e-mail account is out of control

[StevenA]

My Verizon FiOS internet e-mail account has started getting so much spam (upwards of 50 messages per day) that's getting past Verizon's spam filter that it has become just about useless. This started last December and it's been getting worse and worse. I've been very careful about not giving out that e-mail address (I have other e-mail addresses), so it's a mystery why this has suddenly started. I've been bundling up the spam messages and sending them to abuse@verizon.net, but it doesn't seem to do any good.

This isn't exactly an hdtv issue, but since the internet service came bundled with my hdtv and telephone service I figure it's an appropriate subject for this forum

[bozey45]

I also have verizon FIOS internet, TV and phone; but my email account is through Verizon with MSN and I never get any SPAM. Don't know what the difference is; i use an HP laptop and also an MSNTV2 set top internet browser and never get SPAM on that either; don't really know what could be causing you to get so many SPAM messages; if you can get a FIOS internet CS rep on the phone that you can understand in India maybe they can help find out.

[Floyd]

Maybe you posted on newsgroups and haven't munged your email address? Or, maybe you joined a shady forum/internet site that put your address on a spammers list? No insult intended, but something must have happened, or maybe you just have an address that is easily predicted by spambots.
I also get tons of spam on my ancestral primary address that I've had for over a dozen years. There ought to be a law. Oh wait, there is a law....there ought to be a law with teeth and penalties that is enforced. It seems like they never try too hard to stop scoundrelous activities that make a buck.

[StevenA]

Maybe you posted on newsgroups and haven't munged your email address? Or, maybe you joined a shady forum/internet site that put your address on a spammers list? No insult intended, but something must have happened, or maybe you just have an address that is easily predicted by spambots.
I also get tons of spam on my ancestral primary address that I've had for over a dozen years. There ought to be a law. Oh wait, there is a law....there ought to be a law with teeth and penalties that is enforced. It seems like they never try too hard to stop scoundrelous activities that make a buck.
I don't use my Verizon e-mail address for newsgroups or forums, but now that I think of it there were a couple of places I gave it to last fall. My mother passed away in November, and I gave my Verizon e-mail address to the funeral home, and then used it to e-mail the local newspaper after they screwed up the obituary. It was shortly after that when the spam started, so one or both of those sources may have had poor security (or a computer infected with a virus that mines e-mail address books). Nevertheless, I still think Verizon is doing a poor job of blocking spam. I give my Yahoo e-mail address out all the time, and while it gets lots of spam, Yahoo does a good job of filtering nearly all of it and moving it into the bulk e-mail folder. There are other things I don't like about Verizon's e-mail (for example, they automatically delete e-mails that are more than 60 days old), but the spam problem is currently the most troubling.

[Maestro]

My Verizon FiOS internet e-mail account has started getting so much spam (upwards of 50 messages per day) that's getting past Verizon's spam filter that it has become just about useless. This started last December and it's been getting worse and worse. I've been very careful about not giving out that e-mail address (I have other e-mail addresses), so it's a mystery why this has suddenly started. I've been bundling up the spam messages and sending them to abuse@verizon.net, but it doesn't seem to do any good.

This isn't exactly an hdtv issue, but since the internet service came bundled with my hdtv and telephone service I figure it's an appropriate subject for this forum

You really need to switch to a free email service like Gmail. Here is why. First of all, they have excellent spam filtering.
Secondly, and this is the big thing for me, the address is persistent no matter who my ISP is. I had roadrunner for many years. I have a tampabay.rr.com address I used for years. When I made the switch to FiOS, I had to spend a lot of time updating a lot of people with my gmail address. Now that the gmail address is established, I don't have to do that ever again. Regardless of provides me internet service, I have my own email address.
And a service like gmail is completly compatible with a program like outlook or whatever you may want to use.

[CANDY76MAN]

You really need to switch to a free email service like Gmail. Here is why. First of all, they have excellent spam filtering.
Secondly, and this is the big thing for me, the address is persistent no matter who my ISP is. I had roadrunner for many years. I have a tampabay.rr.com address I used for years. When I made the switch to FiOS, I had to spend a lot of time updating a lot of people with my gmail address. Now that the gmail address is established, I don't have to do that ever again. Regardless of provides me internet service, I have my own email address.
And a service like gmail is completly compatible with a program like outlook or whatever you may want to use.

I did the same thing a while back for the same reasons....gmail works great and you have the added benefit of accessing it from anywhere you have internet access plus, if your like me and do a clean install of windows every 6 to 12 months you don't have to worry about backing up your email or address book every time.