Top 7 Tips How to Avoid Spam

Spam is filling the internet with numerous copies carrying the same message. It delivers message even to those people who are not interested with the information. Most of these messages are based on commercial advertising for various products and services. The receiver pays for spam information unlike the sender. The different types of spam have effect to internet users.


Cancelable Usenet spam is one message send to more than twenty newsgroups. Not all the information posted to these news groups is news worth. This type of spam does away with the relevance of news groups among users. It provides media organizations with irrelevant information or advertisement. It weakens the ability of system administrators on the information they should accept in their system.

Email spam on the other hand targets internet users with direct mail messages. Messages in this type of spam are created by scanning Usenet, using internet mailing list or searching the web for addresses. Users pay for the information they receive. The cost in this case is directly transmitted to subscribers. Spammers use automated tools to subscribe to numerous mailing lists. Thereafter they use this list as a direct target to forward the information to those they want.

Several ways have come up in which you can protect yourself from spam.

• Use disposable email address to protect yourself from spam. This type of email forwards all the emails you have received to your real address. Once you get these unnecessary information through you disable it. The unwanted information the sender had forwarded bounces back in their inbox. You provide your disposable address to one of the spammers or website. You can also post it to your home page. This way you protect yourself from receiving irrelevant information to your inbox.




•  Avoid information displayed on check box once you sign up for something in the web. You risk your email address to spammers if you accept to get information from third party. To prevent this from happening, look closely at every form you fill from the web. Make sure no important check boxes that are ticked.




•  Disguise your email address. Using special programs spammers, you are able to extract your email address. These programs get mail address from chat rooms websites among other forums. Add something to your address to avoid getting into spammers mailing list. Once spam sends you their messages, it bounces back. Those who want to send you a message can do away with the disguise and forward it to your normal address.




• Use long complicated email address. Spammers will not be able to guess your address in this case. If possible, make sure it consists of more than one word, word segments numbers and an underscore. Through one domain name, spammers can guess similar email addresses.




• Use disposable email address at your website especially on the mailto links. If stranger sends you an email that you accept, he or she gets disposable address. Create your own to reply them. Let them learn that the disposable address is where they should send information.




• Disable the disposable email address posted on your home page once they get to it. Replace it with a new one to stop further spam sent to the old disposable address.




• If you are a domain owner, create addresses that you can do away with in order to fight spam. Create an email if you need to sign up for something. If you get a spam mail, look at the junk emails header before accepting it. Be careful with the address you create though. Spammers are able to create there own address that may turn out to be similar to yours.