How Do I Stop Spam Email?
Many individuals receive spam emails without thinking too much about them.But by working otgether we can reduce spam and make things safer for everyone. This article looks at ways in which people can try to outwit or report spammers thereby reducing their success.
Receiving junk emails which are either silly, or making some fantastic claims about products may not seem like a big deal.And after all, there are worse things in life than junk mail? Well, in some ways this may be true, but for people to understand the problem with spam emails, they have to understand some facts behind spam.
Firstly, spam email costs everyone money. People who receive unsolicited email in their new email account at work lose time due to dealing with spam emails.This wil only cost the business they work for money.
And some people find spam upsetting.A lot of people have lost money to spammers who pretent to be banks and building societies.Stories of illness or the need to transfer funds inot a UK bank account catch some people out.We can all think those people were stupid, but at the time these scams were far less known, so people were less cautious.
Spam may therefore not be either innocent nor harmless.It can swamp people’s inboxes and upset some, so it needs to be stopped.But it’s hard to keep your address out of spammers’ hands, although new software to filter oiut spam emails is coming out all the time.
One thing you can do to stop spam by yourself, is to use a another email addresses when you are on a social networking site, such as MySpace. Instead of using the @ symbol before your service provider, use at or better still AT, so you would be jane.smithAT (service provider) rather than jane.smith@ then the ISP.
Email addresses can be targeted using guesswork, so make it harder by incorporating an underscore or number. Thus jane_smith79_2@ service provider will have a lesser chance of being guessed correctly by software.
You can also report spam to the Information Commissioner’s Office or to businesses such as google or yahoo who are all working to reduce the amount of spam on the internet, but there is a long way to go before it is completely eradicated.
