** How 2 Protect an Email Account frm SPAM! by ROCKY13 2010/02/09 05:10
How to Protect an Email Account from SPAM
How to Protect an Email Account from SPAM
ROCKY13 2010/02/09 05:11
Most of us get SPAM
every day. Some of us get
more and some little.
Even a newly created
email account will begin
to receive spam just after
a few days of its creation.
Many times we wonder
where these spam come
from and why? But this
question remains
unanswered within
ourselves. So in this post I
will try my best to give
every possible information
about the spam and will
also tell you about how to
combat spam.
Most of us get SPAM
every day. Some of us get
more and some little.
Even a newly created
email account will begin
to receive spam just after
a few days of its creation.
Many times we wonder
where these spam come
from and why? But this
question remains
unanswered within
ourselves. So in this post I
will try my best to give
every possible information
about the spam and will
also tell you about how to
combat spam.
ROCKY13 2010/02/09 05:11
What is SPAM?
Spam is the abuse of
electronic messaging
systems (including most
broadcast media, digital
delivery systems) to send
unsolicited bulk messages
indiscriminately. Most
widely recognized form of
spam is email spam.
What is SPAM?
Spam is the abuse of
electronic messaging
systems (including most
broadcast media, digital
delivery systems) to send
unsolicited bulk messages
indiscriminately. Most
widely recognized form of
spam is email spam.
ROCKY13 2010/02/09 05:11
Where do these SPAM
come from?
These spam come only
from spammers and never
from a legitimate user or
a company. These
spammers send a single
email to hundreds (some
times thousands
or millions) of email
addresses at a time. They
either send it manually or
use spambots to
automate the process of
spamming.
Where do these SPAM
come from?
These spam come only
from spammers and never
from a legitimate user or
a company. These
spammers send a single
email to hundreds (some
times thousands
or millions) of email
addresses at a time. They
either send it manually or
use spambots to
automate the process of
spamming.
ROCKY13 2010/02/09 05:12
Why do spammers
SPAM?
The main goal of
spammers is to send the
spam (unsolicited bulk
messages) to as many
people as possible in
order to make profit. For
example, John builds a
small website to sell an
ebook which gives
information about weight
loss. In order to make
sales he needs publicity
for his website. Instead of
spending money on
advertising, John decides
to create an email which
contains information
about his site along with
its link and send this
email to say 100 email
addresses in his contact
list. If 1 person out of
hundred buy this book
john gets *10. What if he
sends this email to 1000s
of email addresses. He
gets *100. Imagine, if he
sends this email to 1
Million email addresses he
gets *100000.
Why do spammers
SPAM?
The main goal of
spammers is to send the
spam (unsolicited bulk
messages) to as many
people as possible in
order to make profit. For
example, John builds a
small website to sell an
ebook which gives
information about weight
loss. In order to make
sales he needs publicity
for his website. Instead of
spending money on
advertising, John decides
to create an email which
contains information
about his site along with
its link and send this
email to say 100 email
addresses in his contact
list. If 1 person out of
hundred buy this book
john gets *10. What if he
sends this email to 1000s
of email addresses. He
gets *100. Imagine, if he
sends this email to 1
Million email addresses he
gets *100000.
ROCKY13 2010/02/09 05:13
Now I hope you
understood the idea
behind spamming. So in
order to make money,
spammers send their
advertising emails to as
many people as possible
without respecting the
recipient s privacy.
Now I hope you
understood the idea
behind spamming. So in
order to make money,
spammers send their
advertising emails to as
many people as possible
without respecting the
recipient s privacy.
ROCKY13 2010/02/09 05:13
From where do
SPAMmers get my email
address?
On the Internet there
exists many sites who
collect the email IDs of
people and sell them to
spammers in bulk. Most
often, people sign up for
monthly newsletters and
take up surveys. This is
the time where these
scam sites get their email
addresses. Also many
spammers collect email
addresses by using
spambots. These
spambots collect email
addresses from the
Internet in order to build
mailing lists. Such
spambots are web
crawlers that can gather
email addresses from Web
sites, newsgroups, forums,
special-interest group
(SIG) postings, and chat-
room conversations.
From where do
SPAMmers get my email
address?
On the Internet there
exists many sites who
collect the email IDs of
people and sell them to
spammers in bulk. Most
often, people sign up for
monthly newsletters and
take up surveys. This is
the time where these
scam sites get their email
addresses. Also many
spammers collect email
addresses by using
spambots. These
spambots collect email
addresses from the
Internet in order to build
mailing lists. Such
spambots are web
crawlers that can gather
email addresses from Web
sites, newsgroups, forums,
special-interest group
(SIG) postings, and chat-
room conversations.
ROCKY13 2010/02/09 05:14
Spammers also use the
trick of creating Hoax
Emails for gathering a
huge list of email IDs. For
example, a
spammer sends a hoax
email which says Forward
this Message to Help
Severely Burned Child.
This email claims that 11
cents will be donated to
the child s family every
time the message is sent
to others. Most of the
people believe this and
start forwarding this hoax
email to all of the IDs in
their contact list. In this
way the email spreads
rapidly and eventually
when it reaches the
creator (spammer), the
spammer gets a huge list
of valid email addresses in
the email header. When
you get these kind of
hoax emails, you can see
for yourself in the email
header which contains a
huge list of email
addresses of all those
people to whom the email
is being forwarded to. This
is one of the effective
methods used by
spammers to gather email
addresses.
Spammers also use the
trick of creating Hoax
Emails for gathering a
huge list of email IDs. For
example, a
spammer sends a hoax
email which says Forward
this Message to Help
Severely Burned Child.
This email claims that 11
cents will be donated to
the child s family every
time the message is sent
to others. Most of the
people believe this and
start forwarding this hoax
email to all of the IDs in
their contact list. In this
way the email spreads
rapidly and eventually
when it reaches the
creator (spammer), the
spammer gets a huge list
of valid email addresses in
the email header. When
you get these kind of
hoax emails, you can see
for yourself in the email
header which contains a
huge list of email
addresses of all those
people to whom the email
is being forwarded to. This
is one of the effective
methods used by
spammers to gather email
addresses.
ROCKY13 2010/02/09 05:14
Is SPAMming legal?
Spamming is completely
illegal. Yet it is really
difficult to stop spammers
from spamming since they
keep moving from one
hosting company to
another after getting
banned. This makes it
practically impossible to
catch spammers and
prosecute them.
Is SPAMming legal?
Spamming is completely
illegal. Yet it is really
difficult to stop spammers
from spamming since they
keep moving from one
hosting company to
another after getting
banned. This makes it
practically impossible to
catch spammers and
prosecute them.
ROCKY13 2010/02/09 05:15
How to protect my
email account from
getting SPAMmed?
The following methods
can be used to combat
email spam.
1. Use spam filters for
your email account. If
you re using email services
like Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail
etc. then spam filters are
used by defaut. Each
spam filter has
it s algorithm to detect
spam emails and will
automatically move them
to SPAM folder. This
keeps your inbox free
from spam. However
some spam emails
become successful to
make their way into the
inbox by successfully
bypassing the filters.
How to protect my
email account from
getting SPAMmed?
The following methods
can be used to combat
email spam.
1. Use spam filters for
your email account. If
you re using email services
like Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail
etc. then spam filters are
used by defaut. Each
spam filter has
it s algorithm to detect
spam emails and will
automatically move them
to SPAM folder. This
keeps your inbox free
from spam. However
some spam emails
become successful to
make their way into the
inbox by successfully
bypassing the filters.
ROCKY13 2010/02/09 05:15
2. Do not post your email
address in public forums,
user comments and chat-
rooms. Give your email
address only to
trustworthy websites while
signing up for newsletters.
3. While taking up online
surveys and filling up
feedback forms, it is
better not to give your
personal email address.
Instead singup for a
dummy email account
and use this for surveys
and feedback forms.
2. Do not post your email
address in public forums,
user comments and chat-
rooms. Give your email
address only to
trustworthy websites while
signing up for newsletters.
3. While taking up online
surveys and filling up
feedback forms, it is
better not to give your
personal email address.
Instead singup for a
dummy email account
and use this for surveys
and feedback forms.
ROCKY13 2010/02/09 05:16
4. While posting your
contact email address on
your website use this
format: emailaddress
[at] yoursite.com instead
of
emailaddress@yoursite.com.
This protects your email
address from being
indexed by spambots.
5. Do not respond to hoax
messages. When you
receive a hoax email,
avoid forwarding it to your
friends. Examples of hoax
messages can be found at
www.hoax-slayer.com. If
you really want to forward
it to your friends, make
sure that you use
Bcc (blind certified copy)
option to send the email.
This will hide all the email
IDs to which the mail is
forwarded to.
4. While posting your
contact email address on
your website use this
format: emailaddress
[at] yoursite.com instead
of
emailaddress@yoursite.com.
This protects your email
address from being
indexed by spambots.
5. Do not respond to hoax
messages. When you
receive a hoax email,
avoid forwarding it to your
friends. Examples of hoax
messages can be found at
www.hoax-slayer.com. If
you really want to forward
it to your friends, make
sure that you use
Bcc (blind certified copy)
option to send the email.
This will hide all the email
IDs to which the mail is
forwarded to.
TwilightSparKle 2010/02/09 12:32
You hav helped out alot of people including myself by creating this topic. Hoping that many would find the time to drop by and also share their feedback with you
You hav helped out alot of people including myself by creating this topic. Hoping that many would find the time to drop by and also share their feedback with you
-linda- 2010/02/10 04:42
I already do no. 1-3 for a long time still got many spams, i will try no. 4 & 5..Can you explain no. 5 in details the steps, please? (tq2) for sharing
I already do no. 1-3 for a long time still got many spams, i will try no. 4 & 5..Can you explain no. 5 in details the steps, please? (tq2) for sharing
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