How To Not Receive Phishing And Promotional Emails On Bellsouth Email Account

Bellsouth email account is powered by AT&T communications and offers a variety of features on email desktop as well as on smartphone app. If you wish to receive the alert for new email on both the devices, you can receive it easily through the steps mentioned in our previous post. Today, we are going to discuss an important topic related to phishing and promotional emails. Some people on the complaint forum have discussed that they are continuously receiving the phishing emails in the inbox folder which they don’t want to.

Are you fighting with this same problem? If yes, then follow the steps which we are going to discuss now. With the help of the steps mentioned below, you can easily block unwanted emails from receiving on the account.

1. Block email account: If you want to get rid of unnecessary phishing or promotional emails, then you can block the email address with the help of below-mentioned steps.

• Open email account and click on ‘Settings’.
• From settings, go to the right corner of the screen.
• Open Drop-down menu and click ‘Blocked email addresses’ option.
• Enter email you want to add to the block list. You can use the on-screen keyboard or hardware to enter the email address.
• After this, the emails will stop receiving from the blocked email address. If you want to unblock, you can easily do so in the future.

2. Unblocking blocked addresses: If you want to unblock the already blocked email addresses, go through the steps given here as under:

• Open blocked email addresses list from the same menu you opened in the previous step.
• Uncheck or remove the email address from the list. You can also directly delete the email address by selecting it.
• Once you delete the email address, as soon as you receive any new mail from that account, a notification will be displayed on the account screen. You can even revert for the same from the inbox.

Additional information: Besides the steps mentioned above, if you want to know bit more about the blocked email address or phishing mail, you can check the guide given here as under:

• When you block the email address on your Bellsouth email account, all the messages from that account will keep on deleting automatically from the server and you won’t retrieve them.
• All the mailbox folders like trash, spam, the inbox will remain free from phishing and promotional emails during this time period.
• If the messages are still receiving from the blocked email address, then check the account for possible attackers or hackers. Someone might have tried to peep into your account illegally without your knowledge. Possible symptoms of hacked account are:

1. Unknown messages from the new person.
2. No new mails receiving in the last few days.
3. Login issue.