Anti spam tips

Spam is flooding the email world these days like viruses. They are definitely unwanted and unsolicited emails from generally advertisers of websites or online trading organisations. Whichever way, they try and block online traffic and actually earn money out of that. It might be irritating to you and disruptive for your online world, but it is a means of earning money for professional spammers who earn their living out of sending these emails. This is because when a spammer sends an email to a crowd of email addresses, it is not he who pays, but the receiver who pays for it by spending time on it.

You must be seriously irritated by all the spam. In this article I will guide you through a few methods which could help you keep spam at bay.

1. NEVER EVER GIVE OUT YOUR EMAIL ID ON AN UNKNOWN WEBSITE: Never give your email address on any website- even if they attract you by promising a prize of millions of bucks. It doesn’t work that way. These advertisements are like the port-keys in Harry Potter which will take you to another site and whoosh, you are a victim of spamming.

2. NEVER REPLY TO SPAM IN YOUR MAIL: The reason is simple. The spam software uses robots to send emails to abrupt email addresses without actually knowing whom they belong to. Once you reply to these mails, your id gets validated. Don’t reply - even if there is a link that asks you to click on it to remove your id from the mailing list. They are all techniques to validate your id.

3. NEVER MENTION YOUR EMAIL ID ON YOUR WEBSITE: If you are willing to provide your website visitors a chance to contact you personally, then don’t simply put up your email id in html. Create a form which will lead up to you. This is because, once you have your email id on your website, spamming software programs easily detect them and put you ion their spamming list.

4. INSTALL SPAM DETECTING SOFTWARE: Spam detecting software programs are aplenty in the market. The good part is nearly all of them work. You can avail of a spam detecting software suited to your computer configuration. These programs generally detect spam even before they reach your inbox. This way you are saved from the clutter.

5. NEVER READ A SPAM: Whenever you are actually reading a spam you are helping them earn. That is because you are using internet time and the transfer rate helps them earn the dollars.

6. REPORT SPAMS: Always report spam. There are many websites which work as real life police and detectives. As rightly thought, they must be informed to help them serve us better. There are a lot of websites like this. All you need to do is mail them the header. A header is obtained by looking at the source code of the mail.

These are a few essential steps which help you and the Internet world to save the clutter resulting out of spam.