I receive several emails per day from foreign "Bank officials" stating they need to get my banking information so they can deposit various amounts of money (Always in the millions of dollars) in an American bank. When I allow them to use my bank account, they will deposit the money in my account and give me a large portion of the money for my trouble.
2006-08-01 10:28:33 · 6 answers · asked by sewerpipe633 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
See www.versiontracker.com
It's got a large number of programs that help with this sort of thing. And it's been a very reliable website for my other needs, too.
2006-08-01 10:35:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Once your email address is on a spammers list it is almost impossible to get off. Right now, your e-mail address (along with millions of others) is on a CD being sold from the back rooms of software shops from Bangladesh to Botswanna and from Norway to the Netherlands.
However there are several things that you can do to prevent even more spam.
1. Start by removing your e-mail address from your Yahoo profile,if it is on it. The spam-industry has programs that are continusously crawling the web looking for the "@" symbol which is a sure sign the the word before it and the domain name after it is an e-mail address!
2. Use a longer address. The spam industry uses programs that try sending e-mail to all known domain names. Example: a program might start trying to send out e-mails to everyone starting with aaaaa@INVALID.com and continue down to zzzzz@INVALID.com. Using a longer e-mail address will make this harder to do.
3. Never click the "Unsubscribe Link" in any e-mail. This will only confirm to the spammers that your e-mail address is indeed real and that you are reading their garbage. In fact, do not even open any e-mail from anybody you don't know or trust. Many spams are not only annoying but contain viruses of other malware. Just delete 'em without opening 'em!.
You can however click that "Unsubscribe Me" button from businesses that are well known and that you trust. Walmart... yes. Someone selling Viagra...no.
4. Open up a second e-mail account. Whenever, a website requires you to register using your e mail address, use this secondary address. There are many unscrupulous websites that will sell you address to others or bombard you with spam themselves.
5. Download a free copy of SiteAdvisor. SiteAdvisor will alert you when you search (Google, Yahoo, MSN, search only) of websites that are known to send out spam.
Treat your e-mail address just like you would your telephone number or home address....only give it out to those that you absolutely trust!
2006-08-01 18:09:07 · answer #2 · answered by jibberjabbar 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get Thunderbird for your email and use the junk filters. Its pretty effective.
Browsers and E-mail programmes.
Can recommend Firefox for browsing and has many safety features installed and is self updating and for a general e-mail programme,(non-web based) Thunderbird is very good. Go to:
http://www.mozilla.com/products/
2006-08-01 17:35:14 · answer #3 · answered by Mordak 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well try to block that address if spams mailed u through one address
2006-08-01 17:35:57 · answer #4 · answered by LOST 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Change your email address. That's what I did.
2006-08-01 17:33:54 · answer #5 · answered by Harry Cat 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Open new account.
2006-08-01 17:37:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋