Many individuals receive spam emails without thinking too much about them. However, spam is a serious business and more people need to work together to ensure that spam is drastically reduced and we can all be much safer online.Let’s look at some ways to report spammers or reduce their activity.
Receiving junk emails which are either silly, or making some fantastic claims about products may not seem like a big deal.After all, we have busy lives and junk email isn’t that big a worry?This is true in a way, but you need to understand some facts about spam before you can appreciate the spam email problems.
For a start, spam emails costs us all money. People who receive spam email in their new email account at work lose time due to dealing with junk emails. This in turn costs the business they work for money.
In addition many people are distressed by spam.A lot of people have lost money to spammers who pretent to be banks and building societies.Popular spam stories include illness, or the need to transfer inherited money into a UK bank account.We can all think those people were stupid, but at the time these scams were far less known, so people were less cautious.
Therefore spam may not be so innocent or harmless as some think.It can overwhelm inboxes and cause a lot of upset, so it needs stopping.There’s a lot of software to cope with filtering out spam, but it’s hard to stop the spammers from getting your email in the first place.
One thing you can do to stop spam by yourself, is to use a slightly different email addresses when you are on a social networking site, such as MySpace. Avoid using @ but say instead “at” or “AT” – so you will be jane.smithAT (your service provider), not jane.smith@ then your service provide.
As many email addresses are targeted with guesswork, using and underscore or number greatly reduces the chances of your address being discovered.Therefore the chances of the software guessing jane_smith79_2@ service provider correctly are fr less.
Spam can be reported to Information Commissioner’s Office, google or yahoo – they work hard to reduce internet spam but it’s a difficult challenge.
