​Unwanted Emails and Texts

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A couple of months ago I started receiving ridiculous amounts of emails, out of the blue, for nonsense stuff. These aren’t the regular “spamish” emails, I mean 10 or 15 emails for products and services I’d never want. They often looked like a similar format too, where the word UNSUBSCRIBE was visible in the preview of the email. I never open those, and simply delete them.
 
Unfortunately, I keep getting them. What I need to do is mark them as Spam in my mail client. In this case, I need to go directly into my Gmail and mark them as Spam, which I will do now.
 
On my iPhone, I go into the message, click on the sender, and it gives me a choice to block the sender. I can also do a long press on the email before opening it and it looks like it also gives me a Block Sender option.
 
For a while I was getting weird phishing text messages, several a day. Often they would just say ‘Hi’. Sometimes they would say something like: ‘Hey, you forgot your jacket in my car’, or ‘We haven’t connected in a while, do you want to meet up?’. For those, I do NOT open the message, but delete it, and when I do that, it offers to Delete and Report s Junk, which I do.
 
Sometimes a contact list will get hijacked from somebody and that list will be used to contact others on the list, using names FROM that list. That’s how emails go around purporting to be from me, and going to people I know. The emails were not from me, and I don’t have anything to do with it and there’s nothing I can do about it. I have received similar emails.
 
If you want to read more about this sort of thing and get some more details on how to deal with them, I suggest reading Kim Komando’s article HERE. How to stop spam emails: Is it safe to hit that unsubscribe button? (usatoday.com)