Velcro Advertising People - 20 Tips Against Spam

byLoes

13.2K followers

7 years ago

There are coming quite some emails in your inbox and online on Social Media of people you do not seem to get rid of.

I call them Velcro People

They follow you around as if they are stick to you with Velcro.

What can you do, to get rid of those sticky followers? Or not getting them in the first place.
Here are some tips against spam Velcro advertising people:

1. Don't display your email address on the Internet.
   Make a link mailto:emailaddress@gmail.com with the link button.
   Mail to Loes
2. Never answer unsolicited emails.
3. Never answer messenger with spam, directly block the spammer.
4. Never click on something in a spam email.
5. Protect your friends, don't send email to multiple people at once, use BCC.
6. Do not join chain letters.
7. Buy nothing via unsolicited emails.
8. Use a fire wall.
9. Don't leave your email address on a splog (spam blog) Blogs which only contain advertisements and no article.
10. Adjust the settings on your website: Hold a comment in the queue if it contains 1 or more links. Dashboard>settings>discussions>fill in the box with 1.
11. Remove spam on Social Media.
12. Remove unknown apps on Facebook.
    Open Facebook
    Go to the top right corner and choose Settings
    On the left, click Apps
13. Block spamming "Friends" on Facebook and other Social Media.
14. Report phishing email.
15. Pay attention to the sender. Do they say "Dear customer" or Dear Loes Knetsch
16. Check the authenticity. Is the message REALLY from PayPal? Always go through a direct link to PayPal, don't use a link send to you by email!
17. Don't ever open attachments from unknown senders.
18. Don't let your inbox load messages automatically. Block images, when you let them load, the sender can see that you've read it.
19. Unsubscribe from unwanted newsletters, they often are linked to other services.
20. Fill in rules in your email service. Block sender rules.