Tips to reduce Unwanted Spam!
Most of us find our mailboxes filled with emails and advertisements for products, which can basically be termed as ‘unwanted emails or unwanted spam’. Precious time is lost in determining and then deleting all such unwanted spam from our mailboxes. Some tips are mentioned below which will help in keeping our mailboxes free from such unwanted spam:
1.Using two separate email Ids for work related and social networking or general surfing will prove to be a good idea. Never ever provide your work or official email id for social networking or online shopping.
2.If shopping online or if registering for any service, check out the privacy policy of the website. Privacy policy of any website will inform you that your email id can be provided to other sources for sales promotions, offers etc. It would be better not to provide your official or work email id to such sites.
3.Spammers use common name combinations for their email spam. Choosing a unusual email Id will better the chances of your id not getting selected for spam mail.
4.Most of the Internet Service Providers, provide email filters and spam filters. This way one can have a separate folder where bulk of spam mails get collected and which can be deleted all at once.
The most important tip to control or stop email spam constitutes much more than taking individual steps, by reporting such spam email to the FTC, IRS or BBB will prove to be a step towards striking at the roots of the problem.
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May 5th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
Most fraud/spam email is easily recognizable for exactly what it is without ever having to open it. Just look at the mail’s “from” and/or “subject” lines. For example, receiving something from “Euro Millions Lottery” with a subject line of “Congratulations Winner!” can be nothing other than attempted fraud spam. So is receiving something labeled “My Dearest Beloved” from someone you don’t even know.
While it’s all well and good to say “report such spam email to the FTC, IRS or BBB” or other agency, wisdom also says that such mail should never be opened at all because it might harbor viruses, worms, spyware or other malware. Since I know of no way to forward a letter without first opening it, how am I to send it to the appropriate agency? Moreover, since I receive some 20 to 40 of these things almost every single day, who even has the time? Consequently, I do what most other people do: scan through my bulk mail folder once a day and simply delete.