Content and Website Abuse

We are all familiar with the word spam when it comes to our email accounts. Spam in the internet world are emails that contain advertisements and sometimes malicious spyware or viruses. These could harm your computer if a person mistakenly clicks on any of the banners or links within the email page. Spam email has taken place of those annoying catalogues that we usually get in the mail. Now is there a way a person can learn on how to stop email spam?

People often times are not aware that they subject themselves to spam email when they browse the internet. Most spam emails are sent when these spammers get a hold of your email address. Now people may argue that they don’t give out their email addresses to anyone, but surprisingly enough they don’t know that some forms that they fill out online are the source of the spam email.

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You must be one of them experiencing a lot of unwanted emails
flooding into your mail box every day. It is annoying, and a
“daily” problem for many.

How do the spammers find your email? They can find your email
address either in the text of a web page or in a mailto link.
The spammers enjoy harvesting the emails and ultimately those
emails are spammed with junk mails.

I came to know about some simple methods to protect our email
IDs from spammers, which I hope may be of some help to you too.

1. While leaving your email address on the web page or on a text
message or on a discussion board, write like this – username @
domainname. com (Please note the space in between). Then during
the harvesting process it won’t work easily.

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Spam has been a problem for over a decade and plagues literally everyone who uses the Internet these days. From free email accounts to highly protected corporate servers, spam finds it way into our everyday lives. Spam has gotten so bad that even free email accounts offer some form of spam protection.

An industry was born when this stubborn form of unsolicited advertising started it’s ruthless assault on the world’s inboxes. Anti-spam software went off the shelves upon it’s first arrival as savvy surfers realized that they couldn’t take the intrusive emailings any longer.

While anti-spam software is still utilized today spam still finds it’s way into your inbox unless you decide to be a complete hermit and ban email altogether. With anti-spam software you may also find that many awaited emails may get trapped in the spam box, and even worse, accidentally deleted.

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