8 Easy Ways To Stop Spam

Creating and using a temporary email address.

Yahoo and Hotmail provide this feature to keep your personal email address only to friends and family members and only. Secondary address, you can use for your subscriptions and other purposes. If the secondary address and the spammer abused inbox full of spam messages, then you can delete it and create a secondary email address.

Use a Spam fishing services.

When you sign up for Spam Arrest, you will receive e-mail address spamarrest.com. You can also protect your existing email account by forwarding the Spam Arrest email address, or by having Spam Arrest periodically poll them. That way more than 90% of spam messages are filtered.

Use e-mail filter.

Almost all email applications have this feature. You can create filters to block spam words such as "make money, opportunities, Viagra, etc". Do it, you'll block a lot of your spam messages but not all of them.

NEVER post your email.

Do not post your email on forums, websites, message boards, guest books and other online venues. You should also avoid posting your email contact address on your website. Spammers use robot software and extract the email addresses of thousands of websites. If you want to display your email on your website change to the jpeg image with Photoshop or other image software design.

The use of email blocking tools.

Yahoo for example have a very good tool that can block up to 500 email addresses (free choice, providing better paid) and the number of spam emails will never reach your mailbox. Other web mail services provide similar features as well.

Filters installed on your email application.

If you use Outlook Express you can click the "message" and then click "Block sender". Just do that you will block a lot of unwanted email you.

Never respond to spam at all costs.

When you receive a spam message that asks you to click a link for any reason (fake unsubscribe and others) do not click. If you do, the spammers will now direct that they are dealing with a real email address.

Never open a message with an attachment unknown.

This is very important. Most of the time will be the virus attachment (especially if it's exe or zip format) If you open it, you will activate the virus is contained and harm your computer. ONLY accept email attachments from known sources such as friends, business associates, etc. You also need to have installed an antivirus that scans emails before they are saved to your hard drive.