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Using a spam blocker or spam filter will help, but the ultimate defense to protect your yahoo mail account (for example) is to make sure the spammers never get the details of your email account.

Tips to Avoid Spam

Like most people, your email inbox is probably overfilled with offers for a low interest rate mortgage, Viagra, and letters from heads of foreign countries wanting to transfer millions of dollars into your bank account. Lucky you!

People guard their phone number carefully, but may give out their email address freely. Use the tips below to protect your email address as closely as your phone number.

1. Never post your email address anywhere on the internet - Posting your email address on your website or any 'public' part of the internet is a sure fire way to start receiving spam. Spammers use automated programs to crawl the web looking for text which matches the pattern name@example.com. If you need to provide people with a means of contacting you, try using an image from this site, or provide a contact form on your site where your email address is not part of the code.
2. Use multiple email addresses - Create an additional email address from free email providers such as Yahoo mail or Hotmail and use this address for signing up on websites that require an address for confirmation.
3. Check registration forms carefully - When you sign up on a website, they will often try to add you to a promotional newsletter or list by having a sign up box checked by default. Take a few seconds extra to make sure any of these boxes are not checked.
4. Avoid dictionary 'attacks' - A dictionary attack is when spammers use common dictionary words to guess your address. An address like blue@hotmail.com is easily guessed by spammers. Be creative, use numbers or allowable special characters to create an address that would not be guessed by putting common dictionary words together.
5. Don't unsubscribe - Isn't it handy that spammers provide you with a means to unsubscribe either by clicking on a link or responding to the email? Never click the link or respond. This will only confirm to the spammer that your address is a valid one, and valid addresses are prize possessions for spammers. They can sell them to other spammers and send you more of their own spam.
6. Never respond to spam - As mentioned in the previous point, never respond. As tempting as it is to respond and tell a spammer what he can do with his junk mail, this will only validate your address.
7. Never click on links in spam - In addition to validating your address, you run the risk of being taken to a web site with a virus that will try to infect your computer. Always run up to date anti virus software as a precaution.
8. Use an email program that filters out spam - A good example of a free email program that will filter out any spam you do receive is Thunderbird. You can train it to know which emails are spam and which are not and it does an excellent job of filtering out the spam.

 

 

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