One of the most annoying things ever is constantly checking that little red flashing light on my Blackberry only to discover it's email spam...over and over and over again.
I thought I was careful. I set up about 4 different email accounts. The yahoo, hotmail, webmail and other bogus email addresses I have were designated as the accounts for playing around. I would list these addresses when I wasn't sure how confidential certain site's that requested my email address were going to be.
All claim they'll never disclose your email info....it's kept in the strictest of confidence and will not be bartered off to the highest bidder....yeah...right.
But like I said...these were my I'm-just-playing-around-and-don't-care-how-much-email-spam-I-get-on-these-accounts accounts.
The one I take seriously....and use for real life business is my AOL account. So, when setting up my send/receive email on my Blackberry this is the account I chose to use.
I knew I would only be receiving the important stuff and not have to worry about Nigerian millionaires willing to share their fortune and left kidney with me....for a nominal fee emails on my phone.
Well wouldn't you know someone has gone and pawned my AOL email off to the highest bidder and I'm bombarded with that annoying red flashing light 24 hours a day. Sometimes I have as many as 40 emails from some of the craziest folks offering the stupidest crap.
I thought maybe deleting them on my phone then logging in to AOL mail and marking them all as spam would stop the problem...Apparently marking items as spam and not having to be worried about seeing them in your INBOX again only works for me with my Yahoo Mail account....should have used that one.
Eventually, I'm guessing I'll have to change my email set up on my phone which is going to suck royally.
Or, maybe I'll just learn to ignore the annoying red blinking light!
I guess things could be worse. The Nigerians millionaires could start up again......
