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Stop Junk email Spam
Tips to stop email spam
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Raymond Garcia
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Stop Junk email Spam Tips; Web Tech Support Page: We all hate spam. I’m not talking about the food, you know that seemingly endless stream of annoying commercial emails that flood most of our inboxes with get-rich-quick email and advertisements for porn
sites.
The amounts of junk email spam has skyrocketed. Some experts estimate that spam accounts for over 90% of all emails! Will we have a few tips to help
you stop spam.
Most newer email web sits (Hotmail, Yahoo Mail) have junk mail filters or block sender function. You should enable these functions according to the web site instructions. Don't just delete the spam, add it to your blocked list.
Most Spammers has forged a return (fake) address, so if you respond to that email address you're actually bothering an innocent person. You will find a list of tips below, and remember to come back to WebTechGeek.com for more How To's.
The Tips, Web Tech Support!
If you follow the tips below, you'll have a good chance of keeping spam under control.
1. First of all don't reply to spam unless
the e-mail message has clear instructions for removing
yourself from a mailing list. In most cases, responding
only verifies that your email address is active person.
2. Don't respond or opt-out
to any unsolicited e-mail you receive. Doing so qualifies
your address as "live" where it will wind up on a multitude of other lists. Never try to unsubscribe or ask to be removed. Those emails may include a link or a reply address to unsubscribe, but 95% either simply don’t work, or you're just telling the spammers that they have a live one.
3. Try to avoid displaying
your e-mail address in Internet chat rooms or newsgroups
and try not to give out your e-mail address on secure
sites. When posting to message boards, newsgroups or other
public forums, add an extra component to your e-mail address
so it hinders the spambots. For example, change JohnSmith@abc.com
to JohnSmith@abc.complete. Those who want to respond to
your post must manually type your e-mail address or remove
the extra component.
4. Never order anything advertised in spam, visit the website, or in any way respond to the ad. Spammers send out millions of emails at a time, and it costs them almost nothing. Every order or click through to their website just encourages the spammers to send more and more.
5. You can contact your
ISP and complain. ISPs don't like spam any more than you
do; the mail clogs their servers. The ISP can filter out
mail from a suspected spammer address. Report junk mail
senders to your ISP and their ISP.
6. Never sign an online guestbook. As an experiment I recently created a new email address and entered it on about five guestbooks I found with a Google search. Within 24 hours I was getting spam, and it grew to dozens a day within a week.
7. Try to send a complaint
message to the postmaster at the spammer's ISP, if you
can figure it out. Many spammers forge return addresses,
but you can sometimes figure out the ISP from the full
e-mail header. In some e-mail programs you can right-click
on the e-mail message and choose Options or Properties
to see this information.
8. Just opening an unsolicited ad while connected to the internet can alert spammers that they have a live address, so if your email application has a “work offline” option, often found in the file menu, select it before opening suspect emails, or disconnect from the internet completely. Check your mail options for a setting to turn off graphics in emails, or to display mail in plain text only. This helps keep the spammers from knowing you've opened the message.
9. Establish multiple e-mail
accounts, each with a separate purpose. Use one for corresponding
with family, friends and another for business associates;
create a separate account for e-commerce orders and opt-in
newsletters; free offers, have another for newsgroup postings.
Don't get too attached to any of them since you might
have to abandon it if the spambots catch you.
10. Avoid forwarding emails to large numbers of people. Not everyone realizes that when you forward a message, the email addresses of everyone who receives the message is visible to every person who reads it. If any of the recipients is a spammer, or if one of a friend's computer is infected by certain viruses, they can harvest all of those addresses, including yours.
Note: Don't get mad, just
flag as spam or block the email. Resign
yourself to the inevitability of spam, just as you deal
with the countless junk mail and uninvited catalogs that
you get via regular postal mail box. Ultimately, spam is a fact of modern life, and it's next to impossible to avoid all of it, mostly because of what other people are doing with your email. If your current email address is about to collapse from the amount of spam you get, you might be forced to get a new one. Remember to come back to WebTechGeek.com for more How To's Tips!
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