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Eliminate eMail Spam and Free Up Your Time with SpamPhobia

February 7, 2017 By Jessica Mouser 10 Comments

For the past several months, I’ve been helping Gail manage her email. The majority of the time I’ve spent doing so has simply been deleting spam messages. There are a ton of them, and that’s not counting the ones she deletes herself.

How Gail @GrowMap FINALLY Got Email Spam Under Control

As comedian and TED speaker James Veitch observes, “The internet gave us access to everything. But it also gave everything access to us.”

I have to say, I wish I could deal with email scammers in the same tongue-in-cheek way that Veitch did. Unfortunately, I just don’t have the time. Instead, I have been testing out a third-party app called SpamPhobia, which blocks unwanted emails and guards against malware.

A few days after Gail signed up for SpamPhobia, I logged into her email—and there were hardly any messages! I hardly knew what to do.Click To Tweet

The same thing happened the next day. It was glorious.

Table of Contents

  • Why You Would Need Something like SpamPhobia
  • Free and Pro Plans
  • Getting Started with SpamPhobia
  • SpamPhobia Dashboard
  • Blocking and Allowing
  • New Feature
  • Being Mindful
  • Competitors
  • Declutter Your Life
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Why You Would Need Something like SpamPhobia

You might wonder why anyone would need a third-party spam blocker. While major companies, such as Gmail and Outlook, have decent spam filters, the email accounts of many smaller internet providers (ISPs) offer little to no protection from spam.

And if you’ve ever had an experience like that of James Veitch, you understand why sometimes you need to take extra measures. At one point, Veitch received an email from a supermarket chain about a new store opening. He had never subscribed to that store’s list. And even though he tried to unsubscribe from that list multiple times, he continued receiving emails from that company.

In fact, clicking unsubscribe in scam emails can apparently result in you getting more spam. The reason why is that doing so tells the scammers you have a valid email address.

My favorite example of the futility in unsubscribing is when an email has the word “unsubscribe” at the bottom of it with no link. I have seen emails like that in Gail’s inbox many times.

And of course, this is all not to mention the actual threats that can come to you through email, such as the danger of clicking on a bad link and getting a virus on your computer.

Free and Pro Plans

Believe it or not, you can get the essential features, including support, of SpamPhobia when you sign up for the Free Plan. All you have to do is create an account and give the software permission to access your email.SpamPhobia PricingUnder the Free Plan, you get basic protection, and SpamPhobia scans for spam once every hour. What’s more, when you first sign up for SpamPhobia, you get a 14-day free trial at the Pro level before your account reverts to the standard Free Plan.

Your other option is the Pro Plan, which costs only $4.90/month. With it, SpamPhobia will scan for unwanted emails once every minute and provide you with advanced spam protection.

Do you need spam gone continuously? SpamPhobia Pro removes it EVERY MINUTE all day long. Click To Tweet

The advanced protection means the software will manage your subscriptions to commercial lists, as well as detect viruses and other types of malware. I personally have found the Pro Plan to be very advantageous since the bulk of my unwanted emails come from commercial lists.

Getting Started with SpamPhobia

In addition to Gail’s email, I decided to test SpamPhobia on one of my Gmail addresses. Granted, Gmail does have one of the best spam filters out there. But I’ve accumulated thousands of emails at that particular address (many from commercial lists, as I mentioned).

To get started, I created a SpamPhobia password for that email address and gave the software access to my email account. I can revoke this access at any point.

Once inside, SpamPhobia took me to a dashboard and started sorting my inbox. It categorized all of my messages as spam, threats, subscriptions to lists, or emails that I wanted to keep.

Jessica added SpamPhobia to gmail and used that to quickly clean up her subscriptions.Click To Tweet

After I signed up, a SpamPhobia folder appeared in my Gmail inbox (which of course is separate from my SpamPhobia account). In Gmail, I could view emails the spam blocker had identified as either being from a list or having a virus.

SpamPhobia Dashboard

The SpamPhobia dashboard is simple and clean looking, and you can take a quick tour of it at any point. At the top, SpamPhobia shows the percentage of wanted and unwanted emails in a pie chart, in addition to listing the number of each type of email.

Use SpamPhobia to filter out emails containing viruses before you can accidentally click on them. Surprising how many there are!Click To Tweet

As you can see below from the screenshot of Gail’s dashboard, SpamPhobia has identified 147 emails as spam and 34 as outright threats. 325 of them are lists she is on, whether willingly or unwillingly. So SpamPhobia has been protecting her from a high number of viruses since she started using it a couple weeks ago.

Gail's SpamPhobia dashboard

Below is a picture of my Gmail dashboard. While SpamPhobia didn’t catch any malware in my inbox, it did find over 6000 list emails, the overwhelming majority of which I know I’m not interested in reading.

Jessica's SpamPhobia dashboard

Blocking and Allowing

In the middle of the dashboard are a Blocked List and an Allowed List. During the inbox cleaning process, SpamPhobia automatically put email addresses in my Blocked List or left them alone. I could move email addresses over to my Allowed List (and back again) by clicking the thumbs up or down under the respective “Action” sections of each list.

Blocked and allowed SpamPhobia results

SpamPhobia listed my blocked email addresses in the order of how many messages I had received from each one. The highest number of emails I received from one address was 718.

Another option for approving email addresses is adding them to your “Always Allowed” box. It can be useful to be proactive about doing so in order to prevent certain future emails from being misidentified. Do note that if you add too many emails to the “Always Allowed” box, they’ll be hidden unless you scroll over. So as a general rule, it’s probably easiest to move emails within your two lists.

Always allowed senders

New Feature

In addition to the previously mentioned options, as of this week SpamPhobia is rolling out a new feature. This feature allows you to control which addresses are blocked without you even entering your SpamPhobia account. In your email account, you can simply move mislabeled spam or list emails into your inbox.

From that point on, SpamPhobia will recognize messages from that sender as approved. Alternatively, if SpamPhobia didn’t correctly recognize a message as being from a list, you can drag that message into the list folder. Then the software will learn to treat emails from that sender accordingly.

Being Mindful

After SpamPhobia is done cleaning your inbox, I recommend looking through your Blocked List to make sure there isn’t anyone there whose emails you do want to receive. SpamPhobia blocks repeated emails, and I had to move several important people over to my Allowed List.

Be aware as well that if you expect to receive multiple updates about something, those notifications could very well be blocked. This situation could look like purchasing an airline ticket (which I recently did) or even a concert ticket (something I also recently did).

Basically, SpamPhobia takes care of an annoying problem for you and saves you a lot of time. But like with anything in life, you can’t use it mindlessly.

And it is a necessary solution. Here is a real time screen capture of SpamPhobia’s user data from this past week. Only 27.62% of the emails were legitimate.

Real time pie chart SpamPhobia

Competitors

Two of SpamPhobia’s main competitors are Unroll.me and SaneBox. Unroll.me is free, and its main selling point is that it allows you to see all the lists you’re subscribed to and enables you to unsubscribe from them. It also organizes the lists you want to be subscribed to in one place.

Something to keep in mind, though, about a platform such as Unroll.me is that it is totally free. And when a service is free, that means the user is the end product. The Unroll.me Privacy Policy actually says, “We may share personal information we collect with our parent company, other affiliated companies, and trusted business partners.”

SaneBox has no free option and does have some useful features. However, besides being more expensive than SpamPhobia, SaneBox sorts messages entirely based on who the emails come from and the subject lines. The software does not analyze the content and can therefore tend to sort emails incorrectly. It also does not offer antispam and antivirus protection.

In contrast, SpamPhobia’s two-tiered pricing model allows company leaders to help their customers in the most effective way possible. The paid tier means they don’t need to make money off of advertising, so the users are not the product. But the free tier also allows leadership to rely on their user community to continually improve their product.

Finally, with SpamPhobia your emails are completely private and secure. Company employees do not read them and are actually unable to because they don’t have access to SpamPhobia data stores. The emails are also protected by multiple layers of encryption.

Declutter Your Life

As James Veitch points out, it’s hard enough to sort through the pointless details of life to get to what really matters. No one needs spam aggravating that challenge.

Unfortunately, the United States generates the most spam out of any other country in the world. SpamPhobia could be just what you need to declutter your email and save you precious time.

Click the image below or go to https://www.spamphobia.com now and finally get control of your email inbox. Sign up for a free account for each of your email addresses separately.

SpamPhobia Call to ActionGail and I both say,

Trust us – you need this. We are overjoyed to not be wasting all that time every day on spam! Use it FREE forever, or upgrade to Pro for even more advantages.

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Comments

  1. Simon says

    June 1, 2017 at 7:47 pm

    What I like about SpamPhobia is that it can dramatically reduce spam to almost zero without false positives like other anti-spam sofware. You don’t want to spend time figuring out if an email was incorrectly labelled spam otherwise it defeats the purpose. Also you can classify the emails in different categories or folders saving time and it even gives you a link to unsubscribe from some lists.
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  2. sandipan biswas says

    March 22, 2017 at 3:16 am

    finally i can get ride from the spams. Thanku so much for share this. I am surely going to use this

    Reply
  3. Junaid Shahid says

    February 8, 2017 at 8:08 am

    Hey Jessica,

    I’m also facing many spam emails and approx I have more than 1000 of them. I’m getting sick by deleting them, I think this resource will now work for me. I will like to take the free version of it to try it’s power once.

    Thanks..
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    • Jessica Mouser says

      February 8, 2017 at 10:56 am

      You’re welcome! I think it’s worked very well, and I hope you also find it helpful.

      Reply
    • Gail Gardner says

      February 9, 2017 at 1:16 am

      Hi Junaid,

      I love this plugin. Now I don’t dread clicking into my email accounts as all the subscriptions, spam, and viruses are moved into their own separate folders so I only see the real email and can quickly delete the bad and skim the subscriptions.
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      • Junaid Shahid says

        February 9, 2017 at 1:34 am

        Hey Gail,

        Thanks to add your valuable feedback, I will must try this.
        I’m sure that you are right. Glad to know your point of view 🙂
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  4. Bhavik Solanki says

    February 8, 2017 at 12:53 am

    Thank you for sharing this great information. This information helpful and useful for many people. Here gave good explanation in detail, and step y step that helpful for Removing spam mail with use of SpamPhobia.

    Reply
    • Jessica Mouser says

      February 8, 2017 at 10:54 am

      You’re welcome! I’m glad you found it helpful.

      Reply
  5. Pyare says

    February 8, 2017 at 12:05 am

    Woah! really going to use it, never knew this kind of spam removing tool exists. Thanks for featuring this article and letting me know about this….

    Reply
    • Jessica Mouser says

      February 8, 2017 at 10:53 am

      You’re welcome!

      Reply

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