Harrasment by AARP

Maybe a class action lawsuit will stop the emails.  Start saving them and join us at stopspam112@gmail.com

@DickL310993 

It seems that your problem is because of the way your account has been set up - by you or by AARP, I do not know which.  So you have to change your Account setting.

Go to your “MY Profile” page - you will see the little green dot under your name - that tells me that you are set up for Private Messages and Subscriptions and Notifications.  Now we need to turn all these OFF - 

Now GO to your “My Settings”  You can use the buttons at the top OR on the main index page under QUICK LINKS.

1.  Go to the heading of Subscriptions and Notifications” and turn them ALL OFF by unchecking anything that is checked.  

2. Then go to the “PREFERENCES” setting and see if you can see the Private Message label at the end of the selections.  If it is there, choose Private Message and then UNselect anything that is checked.

3.Under the Preferences:  PRIVACY settings - check NO ONE in each of the selections.

4.  In fact go to every selection in your account set up options and UNCHECK everything - the only thing you cannot uncheck is the Default setting but leaving them is no problem if you UNCHECK everything else.  

5.  MAKE SURE YOU SAVE ALL THE CHANGES before going back to your MY PROFILE page, if not you will have to do it all over again.

6.  If all of this has been done correctly, the Little green dot on your profile under your name should NOT BE There any longer.  

You may find it easier to SAVE the Changes as you move along just to make sure that your selections are taken.  The system will tell you that “your changes have been accepted”  

NOW SIGN OUT - and then click on your name again in your post here, it will take you to this poster’s Profile page and make sure there is no green dot showing beside your name.  

When you have SIGNED OUT - your name at the top of the main page should disappear AS WELL AS the little envelop showing at the top.  IF NOT - there is an additional sign out on the main index page at the bottom - so sign out again there.

If you are still getting the emails / subscriptions and notifications after this - sign back in and review your “MY SETTINGS” and let me know what is still checked.

This should stop everything from being sent to your email - private messages and subscriptions and notifications.  If you want to review the board again, you will have to come to the main site and click on any subject you wish to read and sign back in if you want to respond to any of them.  You will not be notified of any responses to your post OR to any of them to which you have subscribed.

You sure you're not overlooking the Unsubscribe button? Every e-mail I get from a company has one.

The part about 1000 blocks.  I discovered this with yahoo mail how to block senders and am limited to 1000.  When I got to 1000 and could not block anymore I asked someone at my library tech dept what to do and they figured out I unblock the 1000 then start over so that is what I do now.  Maybe this will help you but I also seem to get the huge numbers of related spam after blocking as well.

Hi DickL310993. I certainly understand how annoying it is to receive unwanted emails. You can verify if an email is from AARP by the "From" email address. Emails from us will come from @aarp.org. The email address you provided in your post isn't an AARP email but a spam email address. You can visit https://aarp.info/3kl1ANP to unsubscribe from AARP emails. You may check with your email provider to see if they offer any tools to help you stop the spam emails like the one from your example. I hope that information helps. - Brandon C.