I win a lottery 15 times a day! Junk Email

[msammut]

Hello,
I must have touched on some kind of a spam site but am not exactly sure what has happened here. One day I started getting numerous emails in my inbox saying 'Attention:Your Inheritance Fund","Dear Friend, Urgent Reply Please" or "Attention, you have won 1 Million Euros". Each are either from Nigeria or the UK. Most are from the widow of a rich man who wants to give you his wealth as a show of good faith..or another is a dying person who doesn't want the government to get their milions so lacking family, they want to give it to me.

I feel like creating a whole new email address but I really do want to keep the one I have as it is registered everywhere I need it to be. Do I have any recourse here. Is there anything I can do to stop these emails from coming in. I have tried setting up a spam filter but they are all very different each time they come in?

 

[58sniper]

It would certainly help if you actually told us what software you were using for your email client, and how you connect to your email server.

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[franklin97355]

Spam filtering software would be a good start but any further help will as mentioned above require more info from you.

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[msammut]

I am using Outlook Express and I currently have rules where email with words such as beneficiary, congratulations...are sent to a spam folder. I am using sympatico so it is a high speed connection.