subject: How to treat SPAM Email [print this page] How to treat SPAM Email How to treat SPAM Email
A SPAM Email is an unsolicited commercial email, in other words, an email trying to sell you something which you haven't requested. Spammers get email addresses by various methods, the most common are listed below:
Dictionary attacks
Some spammers use software to randomly generate email addresses for popular email providers. Commonly called dictionary attacks, the software will guess the first part of an email address: guessed@emailprovider.com
The way to avoid this is to use an email address containing special characters such as underscores or numbers.
Purchasing third party lists
Buying email addresses from third parties.
To avoid this only give your email address to trusted sites.
Email Harvesters
Some spammers use special software called email harvesters which scan webpages for email addresses. Common targets for email harvesters are message boards and social networking websites.
To avoid your email being picked up by this type of software, when including your email address on a webpage (for example when you use a message board) try to obscure it. For example, use john AT yourprovider.com instead of using the @ symbol.
SPAM emails will almost always invite you to unsubscribe from their mailing list. This is a way for them to confirm your email address is real. It will offer a link, or it will say something like 'Reply to this email with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject', never do it.
If you want to protect your PC from infecting viruses, just pack up your curiosity about the unsolicited E-mails.
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