Tricks To Trick Spam & Other Unsolicited Emails

It used to be that getting unsolicited phone calls was a common annoyance people had to deal with.  Now that many people have foregone home phones for cell phones, spam and other unsolicited emails are the new problem.  People receive tons of junk email every day in their email inboxes.  Most is unseen as spam filters have gotten much better over the years.  Most mail is automatically redirected to a junk mail box and subsequently deleted.  Besides automated features, there are a variety of ways to protect yourself from junk email.

Don’t give out your email

One of the most common ways spammers and other unsolicited email campaigns acquire your address is because you give it to them.  Filling out online forms to get access to content, putting an email down for written or online contests, signing up for accounts at social media sites or giving your address to a merchant you are doing business with are all ways that these entities get your information.  Think twice before you jot down or type in your email in any old place.  Look for privacy policies that you can read to find out if that entity will start sending you junk mail.  If you don’t have the time to read that or you can’t seem to find one, don’t leave your email because you will probably get spammed.

Lead a double life

The above tip of not giving out your email is good however most will not follow it.  Most of us can hardly help ourselves when all we have to do to get access to that cool online tool or enter into that appealing contest is give our email address.  You can still do that, just create an email account that is used specifically for that.  You don’t even have to use your real name.  Just create an account, make sure to save the name and password you used and presto.  You have a pseudo email identity that you can use to surf the web and make poor decisions with your information.

Spamming is not going away and neither are unsolicited emails.  Protection comes in many forms.  Consumers can spend a lot of time and money installing expensive software to ward off web spammers but that is not necessary.  Simply refraining from giving out your email or creating a pseudo email for use on the web will stop spammers.

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