If you’re like most people, your inbox is completely infested with spam. No need to be ashamed, it happens to the best of us, no matter how clean we try to keep our email inboxes! Whether you’re an individual email user, a member of a non-profit organization, or the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, chances are your email is available on a few websites, helping to contribute to the number of spam emails you receive. receive. There are ways to reduce the amount of spam email you receive, including the following:
Disguises your email address
If you have a website or participate in Internet forums, message boards, and other online communities, make sure you never display your real email address in its entirety. Email addresses listed online are collected by computer programs; harvested like the kid who picks berries and fills his basket at grandma’s house, and is then distributed to spammers around the world. When you need to get your email out in a public way like this, try doing something like this to camouflage it a bit: your email at yahoo dot com. People can understand that and know how to replace “at” with @ and “dot” with . You can also create a graphic image of the “@” sign; and that will prevent automated trackers from collecting your email address.
Don’t reply or click or touch a spam email.
Most spam emails are easily recognizable by their subject lines. Delete any emails with obvious spam subject lines—you know, the ones that talk about giving you a better sex life, prescription drugs, lower mortgage rates, or pending credit card offers. Just delete them without opening them. Don’t click the “unsubscribe links” because all you do is tell the spammer that your email exists and you open it. Clicking on links in a spam email, even if it’s something you’re interested in, will lead to additional spam emails. Don’t shop through spam email links, and never provide personal information through links in an email because it’s likely to be fake and someone will use that information.
Check the privacy policy before joining groups and mailing lists
Whenever you’re tempted to sign up for an online newsletter or join a group, check that the privacy policy states that they don’t sell or give out their members’ email addresses. You might be surprised at how many people make money selling their email lists to other businesses or individuals.
Stop signing emailed petitions
How many times have you received an email asking for your name and email address on your petition? Most of these are just ways spammers get your email address, and honestly, email solicitations don’t work.
Create another email address
When you sign up for a website, newsletter, or online community, don’t use your home or work email. Create an additional email through a free service such as yahoo, msn, hotmail, or gmail; and just use it for all your groups. This will minimize the amount of spam your real email receives, and you can always set up your free email account to forward specific emails or newsletters to your daily email address while the spam remains trapped in the tray. free email input.
Filter your email
There are filters for everything these days; coffee, television, internet websites and email filters yes. By using a spam filter, you can effectively remove most spam email from appearing in your email box. You can also configure Outlook Express and Outlook to automatically delete emails from certain senders or with specific subject lines. If you want, you can even set your email program to remove emails that contain certain keywords, but be careful as there may be some actual emails that contain words that you have blocked and you will lose them if you filter them.