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How to stop spam
Spam is unsolicited e-mail (or news postings) pushing a point. Be it an ad for a used PC, or an urge to vote on a proposition; if you didn\'t ask for it, didn\'t sign up on a mailing list related to it, and didn\'t leave your e-mail address on a web form asking for more information on it, it\'s spam! And if it\'s in your mailbox, the sender might be liable for a $500 fine per instance. Some of those laws have been up held in court. See the resources at the end of this article.
Tips for How to stop spam:
1. Use a separate email address
2. Consider acquiring multiple email addresses for different purposes.
3. You can subscribe to services online that provide you with disposable addresses
4. Remove your email address from your website.
5. NEVER buy anything from a company that spams.
6. Filter your email.
7. Consider subscribing to a spam prevention service.
8 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. This very important if you want to learn How to stop spam.
9 You can also set up a fake email address at such places as hotmail.com or yahoo.com; these email accounts are free.
10 Look for options to opt out of receiving promotional mailings when you have to give your address.
11 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.
12 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")
13 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. This helps much for everybody for How to stop spam.
14 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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