Anyone who has an email address has likely experienced some form of spam at least once. However, it’s safe to say that the average emailer probably receives dozens of these junky messages everyday in their various accounts. It can be very frustrating to have your inbox inundated with chain letters, jokes, medication offers, lottery winnings, etc. If you are fed up with this garbage junking up your accounts, there are things you can do to protect them.
The following are 4 ways you can help prevent spammers from invading your emails with their trash.
1 - Don’t post your electronic mail address on the web unnecessarily – Avoid using your digital address as a username for any website, forum, social network, etc. Emails that are used in this way are easily scraped from the net and harvested by spammers.
2 - Check out the privacy policy before you enter a sweepstakes, mailing list or any other website - When you are required to give your email-address to enter into a contest, create an account and so on, be sure to read the site’s privacy policy before you commit to anything. Sites that have unclear terms, are lacking a policy, you have an uneasy feeling about or who say that your data may be resold, should be avoided. You only want to deal with those that clearly state they will not rent, sell or give away your personal info to third parties.
3 - Don’t respond to spammy messages – Any time you receive SPAM never respond to it, click links in the message or download any attachments. Not only can you subject your computer to viruses but you can also make the mistake of letting the nefarious sender know that your web-mail is active, which means lots more bulk mail will be on its way.
4 - Use the different security features offered by your webmail provider – Most providers allow you to mark messages as junk, by doing this, anything else sent from the same account will be automatically placed in your bulk message folder.
Last but not least, you should keep in mind that when you come across spam-messages you can run a reverse email search on the senders e-address to find out more about them and report them to their Internet Service Provider (ISP).
Source: http://www.buzzle.com/articles/4ways-to-protect-your-email-from-spammers.html
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