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Advice for Helping Older Person with Spam (midwest.social)

submitted 1 year ago by mossy_capivara@midwest.social to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I'm helping my older neighbor deal with tons of spam email that she's getting. For dealing with spam I thought about using thunderbird with with some extensions and making comprehensive filters. To reduce the volume in the future I thought about using deleteme and simplelogin so that her information doesn't continue to be spread.

Anyone have thoughts on the approach or maybe improvements that could be better?

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[–] sxan@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago

My MIL had this problem. I discovered that at the root of the issue was that she kept subscribing to stuff she found online for topics she was interested in. The easy she'd address it was to, every couple of years, simply abandon her email address and create a new one. Of course, it didn't take long for her to start bring overwhelmed by spam, because it was her online behavior that was driving it.

I hate Google as much as the next person, but - outside of their ads - they do have a first-class anti-spam system. Even it can't help if the user is subscribing to "learn the Truth about governmemt weather control!"

I do not know if this is an issue in your situation, but you might inquire. Again, even if you find a solution, it'll only help a little if there's another issue in play.