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When blocking email senders, I should be able to use blanket wild card sylbols like and asterisk to block all emails which start that way.

PLEASE allow us to block emails from a sender which starts with a single word, like Admin, since spammers use that under 100s of addresses after @. I should be allowed to block all emails which start with Admin.

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  • SUSAN DONK commented  ·   ·  Report

    I agree with the complaints listed here. Spam has gotten out of control. Please enable AOL email users the ability to block wildcard spam. It's a simple fix. Do it!

  • kittie9897 commented  ·   ·  Report

    I dread checking my mail anymore with AOL. The amount of spam I receive each day is ridiculous and time consuming. You can't block the addresses either because they just come up with new ones and there are way too many to block.

  • DANIEL FINE commented  ·   ·  Report

    Agree with comments. It is extremely annoying to keep receiving 100plus emails in spam folder every day. It must be possible to block emails as requested just with specified characters or with "wild" characters. Thank you.

  • helenquilliam Quilliam commented  ·   ·  Report

    I’m getting exactly the same re addtocartnow, but I have also started getting spam from 123925@zoqloq. First it was just .com then a single number after the zoqloq2.com, all easy to block but now it is generating random domains.

    123925@oqnkfs61-zoqloq.com

    We should be able to block these I getting over 40 a day.

  • STEPHEN KUMPAR commented  ·   ·  Report

    We should be able to block emails with certain words in the title as well. For example: CBC, yeti, you have won, Lowes, UPS, squirt, manhood, home depot etc. Spam spam spam, I'm sick of it. AOL sucks when it comes to any spam filters.

  • Ian Molyneux commented  ·   ·  Report

    I totally agree with Peter, James & Susan please enable AOL email users the ability to block wildcard spam, I also receive 20-30 spam mails per day and block each individual email...

  • PETER STADOLNIK commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please do implement a wildcard element to the blocking of unwanted spam email. I also constantly get emails like this: 148047113@addtocartnow-z8l14.co.uk. Where the z8l14 is, every email changes that character set, making it impossible to completely block this sender.

  • James H commented  ·   ·  Report

    My experience is the same; 30-40 spam mails per day (except Sunday) with small changes in the domain. AOL used to offer a wild card that would stop it. Bring it back!

  • David Melik commented  ·   ·  Report

    Yes, as Nick said, wildcards need to be able to be used everywhere. Any decent-quality email provider and both server & user software allow that: just as computer programmers/scientists said after Eternal September in the 1990s (when AOL users started flooding Usenet) AOL is low-quality especially email server: amateurish in fact!

  • NICK MCDONNELL commented  ·   ·  Report

    It is not so much the beginning which it would be useful to replace with wildcard symbols as ANY part of the email address. I've recently blocked a spammer using the address 137327595@addtocartnow.co.uk but am now receiving dozens of emails where the domain name has a few additional letters/numbers etc added in to it, such as 137327595@addtocartnow-1234.co.uk.
    I've just tried to add 137327595@*.co.uk to my list of blocked senders but AOL will not accept this as a valid email address. I've received over two dozen emails like this just this afternoon and it is really extremely annoying.

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