Fight Spamming, Learn The Prevention
Devastating facts with an estimation of three out of every five e-mail messages that are sent today are spam.
A complete "code red" matter as it is growing explicitly over the years while costing us all time and money which could be better spent on productive ventures.
How can we prevent spam from reaching our e-mail account?
People who send spam compile their mailing lists in many ways. Methods to compile such lists include:
Sending spam to e-mail addresses that are most commonly used. A common tactic consists of building lists of targeted addresses that use frequently used words such as "webmaster" or "info" (for example, "webmaster@mydomainname" or "info@mydomainname").
Obtaining e-mail addresses that are automatically "harvested" from web sites by specialized software.
Compiling lists of e-mail addresses that are either chosen or generate at random.
-for example, " joe1@mydomainname", "joe2@mydomainname" or joe3@mydomainname-
"This method is becoming increasingly frequent.
Because spammers often send spam to undefined e-mail aliases such as aabbcc@domain.com, ccddee@domain.com, mfrds@domain.com, you can combat the receipt of spam effectively by not using a catch-all address .
(The catch-all is an alias that is used to recieve mail sent to undefined addresses/aliases)"
What is spoofing and how to fight?
"Spoofing" occurs when a spammer uses some version of your domain name in the "From" address field. Spammers use spoofing to try to hide their identities and to pass blame for spam to innocent Internet users.
"The large amount of spam messages, many of which are sent to invalid address will resulted in a significant amount of "bounced" e-mail (that is, mail that returned as being undeliverable)."
Unfortunately, bounced mail is sent back to the address found in the "From" line of the spammed message.
Typically, the "From" line is also an undefined e-mail address not found in your mail settings. To combat receiving bounced mail messages, you can use the "devnull" alias.
How to filter spam in the Inbox once we receive it?
First, do NOT click any link in the spam or try to reply or unsubscribe to the spammed e-mail message. Often, these links will subscribe you to even more spam lists despite the fact that those links appear to promise that you will be unsubscribed.
Spammers also always looking for legitimate e-mail addresses to spam, replying to a spam message in any way only tells the spammer that your e-mail address is valid.
Second, some e-mail programs have built-in functionality that deals with spam that reaches your Inbox. It called Junk Mail, example.
You can also filter messages based on the e-mail addresses of junk and adult content senders, allowing you to move or delete all future messages from a particular sender.
You also be able to review the Junk Senders list and add and remove e-mail addresses from it.
What we can do about the spam that reach us being sent to defined e-mail accounts.
Any defined e-mail address receiving too many spam messages, it is best to advice to change the e-mail address.
For example, if "info@mydomainname" is the recipient of too much spam, it may be a good idea to delete "info@mydomainname" in favor of "information@mydomainname.
It could be a tough decision to make, but such an action could be a huge benefit as it would immediately reduce, if not entirely eliminate all amount of spam in your e-mail address.How we can prevent our e-mail address from being added to spammer's mailing lists?
Spammers use a variety of methods to compile lists. Some useful tips here could help us prevent more illicit spam.
- Protect Your Privacy
Before giving your information to any Web site, please review the Terms of Service and Privacy Policies of the Web site. If the policies do not clearly indicate what will be done with your information, you should reconsidering your option again.
- Publishing Your E-mail Address on Your Web Site
This will help prevent e-mail address harvesting robots and other spammers from capturing your address.
- Member Profiles
- Product Registration
Many of us register products online. Many times the product registration form has options pre-selected that enable the company to solicit you by e-mail, even though you may not want it.
Be sure to review the options you are selecting and any options that may have been selected for you by default.
- Posting to a Newsgroup
Never post anything to a newsgroup with your real e-mail address. Consider cloaking the address or using a "disposable" e-mail address. Consider creating and using an e-mail address from one of the free e-mail address providers.
- Do Not Reply to Spam or an Unsubscribe Request
Never reply to a piece of spam or request to be unsubscribed. Your reply confirms that your address is working and provides the spammer the opportunity to add your address to their list or sell it to another entity. This actually helps facilitate more spam.
We are constantly being bombarded with crap emails on a regular basis. Ninety-five percent of the time I just swipe and delete the emails without looking at them, unless there is something there to grab my attention, which is an another entire training in itself.
Thanks for sharing,
Brian
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No surprise if one-day "spam" has the ability of self-launching attacks once manage to be anywhere inside our inbox. Might be I am just too far thinking in that respect.
Welcome Sir
