AARP Online Community and Discussion Forums - Harrasment by AARP

DickL310993 · ‎05-03-2025

How can we stop AARP from sending multiple Emails per day everyday It waste or time deleting them, we can only block 1000 with our email system. Is AARP that hard up for members?

Maybe they should be more conservative?

I'm not a member and never what to be with an organization That harasses everyone.

Emails from VIP Membership AARP <TMXltYQKt7J8rtDzIia8XzDKu03iE@iy4YAnuBURW2m5Orm2@de.com, No Unsubscribe button.

I have send messages though the website for over 6 months and the e-mails still come.

Will some one please help us

AARPConsumerCare · ‎05-05-2025

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.

BtW751689 · ‎05-04-2025

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.

papawofboo · ‎05-03-2025

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

Papaw of Boo

SpringIsHereVA · ‎05-03-2025

Yes Papaw @papawofboo , the UNSUBSCRIBE button usually works depending on who is your Email Provider. I have the FREE Gmail email setup. Lol, I keep "unsubscribing" from some very irritating emails. I get "confirmation" email saying I have been. Then I get more. Anyway, maybe after we are gone, someone will have found a solution. 👍 Take care, Nicole 👵

➡️[*** Papaw wrote on Saturday 5/3/25: You sure you're not overlooking the Unsubscribe button? Every e-mail I get from a company has one. ***]

GailL1 · ‎05-03-2025

He might be able to do that individually - but to stop them before they get to your email is the best way to stop them for good unless you change THE SETTINGS back.

GailL1 · ‎05-03-2025

@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.

papawofboo · ‎05-03-2025

You missed the part of he isn't a member, so how can he have a profile page?

Papaw of Boo

papawofboo · ‎05-03-2025

So what you 2 are saying is you don't have to be a member to post on these boards.

Did not know that, this old dog learned something today. Not important but did learn.

I stand corrected Gail.

Papaw of Boo

SpringIsHereVA · ‎05-03-2025

Lol Papaw @papawofboo , that is why the spammers luv this site!!! 🤣😂 They are able to override whatever set up AARP has. Now some of the stuff for the Awards Program/games and so on, are for AARP Members only. The same with some of the "online" AARP Articles on their MAIN site.

➡️[*** Papaw wrote on Saturday 5/3/35: So what you 2 are saying is you don't have to be a member to post on these boards.

Did not know that, this old dog learned something today. Not important but did learn.

I stand corrected Gail. ***]

SpringIsHereVA · ‎05-03-2025

Papaw @papawofboo , you are CORRECT!!! Dick @DickL310993 , stated in HIS POST that he is NOT an AARP Member, but he IS A MEMBER of THIS AARP Online Community Forum. I use to be an AARP Member 2018 to 2021 before they p.ssed me off. I got Bruce in the AARP Corporate Office to "scrub" my ONLINE PROFILE = that profile is now called Anonymous. I still hang out in the AARP Grief & Loss Forum to "support" grievers with THIS NEW PROFILE. What alot of people "registering" to use this forum to POST donot realize (before it is TOO LATE) is that you end up on some Spam Mailing List the minute you give them your email address. Same with your phone number & mailing address. I returned to THIS FORUM in 2023 as NOT an AARP Member. Yes, you ONLY have to "register" to post in this forum. But AGAIN, you have to give them YES the info that gives them access to you. Not sure WHY this has been allowed and is apparently legal. Lol, this time around I used a THROW AWAY email address (NOT the email address I have had all my life), a phone number I call my block them phone (NOT my main phone number) and didnot use my EXACT address (NO apt number, just street address). Learn't my lesson from my 2018 to 2021 nightmare. Anyway, it is what it is my friend. Take care, Nicole 👵

➡️[*** Papaw wrote on Saturday 5/3/25: You missed the part of he isn't a member, so how can he have a profile page? ***]

GailL1 · ‎05-03-2025

@SpringIsHereVA wrote

. . . . stated in HIS POST that he is NOT an AARP Member, but he IS A MEMBER of THIS AARP Online Community Forum

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That is a good way to put it - then as a member of this online board, one is in control of your specific THE SETTINGS - which are only how one wants this board to technically work for them.

I do not know if there are specific MY SETTINGS triggered by just registering for this online board - I would hope not other than jjust default setting choices but choices of private messages and subscriptions and notifications should be the choice of the registrar, not the org.

I haven’t had any email of any sort from this board or the org in years (probably 10 or more). In fact, I rarely get any mail from them either - my birthday is the only time - an invite to join. But on the other hand, I have been on Medicare so long now, I don’t even get mail or phone calls from Medicare insurers for me to pick their plan.

I also have my tech stuff set up not to remember me at all (no cookies unless I opt in) - I have to remember everything - username and passwords for each and every place I have to register. Keeps your brain working - since they are all different.

GailL1 · ‎05-03-2025

Anybody can set up their profile. I am not a member and have been here for a very long time. The profile is set up when you register for this board - as little or as much as your want to give - the email address is a requirement to register for his board -

The SETTINGS are only the way you want this board to function for you technically.

SpringIsHereVA · ‎05-03-2025

Dick @DickL310993 , members & non members have complained for years and nothing changes. When AARP "clocks" back in on Monday (they "clock" out on Fridays 8pm ET, return Mondays 8am ET), they will either edit or delete your post. I agree with you 100 percent!!! This needs to stop. Good luck, Nicole 👵

➡️[*** Dick wrote on Monday 5/3/25: How can we stop AARP from sending multiple Emails per day everyday It waste or time deleting them, we can only block 1000 with our email system. Is AARP that hard up for members?
Maybe they should be more conservative?
I'm not a member and never what to be with an organization That harasses everyone.
Emails from VIP Membership AARP <TMXltYQKt7J8rtDzIia8XzDKu03iE@iy4YAnuBURW2m5Orm2@de.com, No Unsubscribe button.

I have send messages though the website for over 6 months and the e-mails still come.
Will some one please help us. ***]