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Originally Posted by David25
I get less than 5 spam emails in a week on 3 ntl email accounts. (The vast majority on an account that I keep private for some reason.)
If I did get spam I wouldn't just blame ntl though. They should do something of course, all ISPs should take a certain level of responsibility.
There is only so much any ISP can do though, especially when some people are not careful about who knows their address (present company excepted of course).
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Ntl's spam problem its not an issue of keeping your account secret. The spammers can use brute force attacks on Ntls email servers to get spam through because there are so many customers with the @ntlworld.com addresses. This works because if they try a million different permutations of
FIRSTNAME.SURNAME@NTLWORLD.COM then they will get some through.
The only advice is to change your email address to something less common, or change your email provider. I've always used Yahoo.co.uk for my mail and they do me proud, I hardly get any spam into Outlook, maybe 1 or 2 a week.
