| is nothing like checking your email only to find out | | | | and for businesses. |
| that your inbox is swamped with unsolicited message | | | | You may be wondering how these spammers found |
| from people you do not know. No you’re not | | | | your email address. With the existing technology |
| interested to buy dog food, beauty products, | | | | available today, you should not be surprised to find |
| slimming pills, plants, or software! But still, you get | | | | that spammers use a lot of techniques for them to |
| these irritating emails. | | | | obtain other people’s email addresses. They |
| Spam, this tiny four letter word has annoyed millions | | | | could get email addresses from DNS listings, Usenet |
| of people around the world. | | | | postings, or web pages, they also could guess |
| What is spam anyway? Spam also called unsolicited | | | | common names at popular domains, or use programs |
| commercial email (UCE), unsolicited bulk email (UBE) or | | | | called web spiders to search for email addresses on |
| junk mail, is unwanted email sent to multiple people | | | | the web. |
| usually for the purpose of advertisement. | | | | So how do you get rid of spam? Unfortunately, |
| Spam has produced negative effects aside from | | | | there is no 100 percent solution to this problem. You |
| annoying people. Apparently, it is a waste of time to | | | | may try anti spam software or spam filters but this |
| sort through tons of email while trying to figure out | | | | will only reduce the number of spam that you receive |
| which email is valid and which is spam. Oftentimes | | | | but will not totally eliminate them. |
| you missed out those important messages just | | | | Another thing that you can do is to click that |
| because you thought they were spam. Spam has | | | | unsubscribe link, usually found at the bottom of email |
| also the potential to spread virus, pornography, and | | | | spam. |
| scams. | | | | As I told you earlier, some spammers acquire email |
| It is not only individuals who are affected by spam. | | | | addresses through guessing common names at |
| Large companies and other businesses are suffering | | | | popular domains so it would be wise to set up an |
| as well. | | | | email account that is hard to guess. Use a different |
| Many companies have already filed lawsuits against | | | | email when signing up with forums, mailing lists, chat |
| spammers who send spam and claim that they are | | | | rooms, news groups, and registering with websites. |
| from those companies, when in fact they are not | | | | Aside from email spam, a new range of spam has |
| and were just sent to cause turmoil and ruin the | | | | recently emerged. Spammers have found new ways |
| companies’ reputation. | | | | on how they could get those spams to people. The |
| The NCSA and Bank of America released a study | | | | new target of spammers are news groups, forum |
| called “Online Fraud report” and it | | | | groups, instant messaging, online game communities, |
| showed that 87 percent of its respondents were | | | | blogs, and even guest books. |
| confident that they could distinguish real emails from | | | | With spam rising progressively, it is really important |
| fraudulent emails. It turned out that 60 percent failed | | | | that you understand its nature and protect yourself |
| to identify the legitimate emails. This only shows that | | | | through learning more on how you can get rid of it. |
| the spam problem has become even worse. Most | | | | Spam can waste your time, energy, and money so it |
| people could not even recognize legit emails from | | | | would really be wise that you know how to block |
| spam. | | | | those annoying messages. |
| Receiving spam is indeed such a hassle for people | | | | |