Even though I have my filters set etc.,?

Question

I still get a lot of spam which goes into my bulk, but it really does get me down. I have another email address that I use but I do not use it to trawl through the internet I just keep it for emails.

How do you yourself avoid receiving spam and how do you deal with it. Or is it something we can do nothing about?

Answer 1

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 [e-mail] and continue down to [e-mail]. 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. This can help you avoid registering with any sites that are known to spam people.
http://www.siteadvisor.com/

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!

Answer 2

We all have spam! If you've ever used the email address anywhere at all on the internet, they've gotcha. You are doing the smart thing to have one address, just for your email. Just go in and delete all the spam........

Answer 3

regrettably direct mail is a factor of life. till human beings provide up being stupid sufficient to purchase the products and supply up earning salary for the ba5tard5 that deliver it there'll continually be direct mail. All it takes is a million out of one and all thousand people who get SPAMMED to open the mail and circulate to the region for the SPAMMER to make money. The selection in keeping with one thousand persons that's stupid is plenty bigger than that...

Answer 4

Aslong as it doesn't cluster your inbox then it shouldn't be a problem. Just click the 'Empty' button by the bulk mail to get rid of it all.

Answer 5

Computer users can avoid e-mail spam in several ways:
End-users can use automated e-mail filtering on their own computers.
System administrators can use appropriate tools to trap e-mail spam at the mail server level, either by use of software or special appliances.
Spam can be reported to appropriate ISP so that the spamming can be stopped.
By giving out one's ISP e-mail address only to closely trusted acquaintances, friends, and relatives, and using web based e-mail services for everyone else.
By ensuring that those acquaintances, friends and relatives who have been trusted with one's e-mail address do not include the person who wants to avoid spam's e-mail address in the "To" or "CC" fields when sending several copies of an e-mail to ensure that, when such e-mails are forwarded, to avoid one's e-mail addresses from appearing in an ammassing list of e-mail addresses
By creating a unique e-mail address for each person or site you wish to communicate with. This can be done using an online mail forwarding service, or with administrative access to your own e-mail server. If spam is received on one of these addresses, you immediately know who leaked or sold your address to spammers, and you can also cancel the affected e-mail address. However, even legitimate email addresses can sometimes get on spam lists, and it's possible for these different email addresses to end up on the same list, meaning that more spam may be sent.
End-users can take precautions to avoid needlessly publicising their e-mail addresses or protect them from e-mail harvesting by spam bots, such as by using e-mail forms that do not display the address in the webpage code, or by address munging.
Using anti-virus and anti-spyware programs with regularly updated definitions to avoid having their computers hijacked and used as spammer tools.
Users are also advised to configure their e-mail clients to disable rich content features such as HTML mail and automatic downloading of images. Downloaded images can be used by spammers to identify valid e-mail addresses.
By periodically performing an internet search for one's own email address, and if necessary getting the appropriate website administrator to remove it.
Anti-spam programmers have released several tools—intended for both end users and for systems administrators—which automate the highlighting, removal or filtering of e-mail spam by scanning through incoming and outgoing e-mails in search of traits typical of spam. Modern anti-spam systems are usually very effective at protecting you from spam.
Like other forms of theft, spam should be reported to the appropriate people so that it can be stopped. Services, such as TattleMail and SpamCop, make this easy to do. While this may not immediately decrease the amount of spam you receive significantly, it will reduce the amount of spam that everyone receives.
The best way to avoid spam is to avoid making one's e-mail address available to spammers, directly or indirectly.
Basic computer literacy should include an understanding of the basics of spamming and spam avoidance. One should never reply to a spam e-mail, or click an "opt-out" link (this simply confirms that an e-mail address is "live"). Users should not reveal their e-mail addresses on pornographic, warez and other shady sites.
If a web site requests registration in order to allow useful operations, such as posting in Internet forums, a user may give a temporary disposable address—set up and used only for such a purpose—periodically deleting such temporary e-mail accounts from their e-mail servers. (Users should notify such forums of the new replacement addresses if they wish to continue interaction for valid purposes.) For example, free services such as spamgourmet.com and spamhole.com allow a user to create a temporary e-mail address which forwards e-mail to you for a set period of time, and then becomes invalid.