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How to stop email spam
Spam is every bit as unwelcome as circulars in your post box or telemarketers who call at meal times. Fortunately there are ways to decrease or eliminate the amount of spam you receive in your daily email.
The following are straight forward tips to help you overcome or prevent spam and viruses in your email.
1.Be private. Do not give out your email address in the first place. In many instances if you are required to give your email address in order to receive something off a website, give an email address that you have set up specifically to receive junk. Some people then choose "nospam@----" for their private address.
2.You can also set up a fake email address at such places as hotmail.com or yahoo.com; these email accounts are free this way, you can learn how to stop spam emails.
3. Look for options to opt out of receiving promotional mailings when you have to give your address.
4. Preview all email by reading their subject lines before opening the mail. If you\'re using an email program, such as Outlook, use the "View" menu to set the "Layout" to show only the subject lines, so you can select what you want to delete without opening the mail. Treat every email you preview as being of a suspicious nature. Many harmless-looking emails with attachments may contain viruses. Many people succumbed to the "I love you" email that contained a virus.
5.When you receive a forwarded email asking for help or money from someone, and in return you will have eternal good luck (or bad luck if you don\'t forward it), do not forward it on. It is likely to be a hoax and is a great way for spammers to cultivate email addresses. Many virus warning emails are a hoax as well. You should research virus warnings before telling your friends about it so you don\'t spread the hoax to them. (Research only takes a minute; see "Viruses, Legends & Lies") this is important in learning how to stop spam emails
6.When forwarding emails to groups of people, send them via the BCC field; this shields their address from others. Ask others to send emails to you this way, too.
7. Use the filters function, if your email program or service provides them, to filter out unwanted emails that do or do not meet certain criteria
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