Create and use a brief email.
Yahoo and Hotmail provide this feature to keep your personal email address strictly for your pals and family members and only. The secondary address, you need to use for your subscriptions and other reasons. If your secondary address is abused from spammers and SEO marketing experts and your mailbox is full of spam messages, then you can remove it and create another secondary email.
Use the Spam arrest service.
When you signup for Spam Arrest, you will get a spamarrest.com email address. You can protect your existing email accounts by forwarding them to your Spam Arrest e-mail, or by having Spam Arrest periodically poll them. In that way over 90% of your spam messages will be filtered.
Use your e-mail’s filters.
Almost all email applications have this feature. You can create filters blocking spam words like “make money, opportunities, Viagra, e.t.c” .Doing that, you will block many of your spam messages but only some of them.
NEVER post your e-mail.
Don’t post your e-mail on forums, websites, bulletin boards, guest books and other online places. You should also avoid posting your contact email on your internet site. Spammers use software bots and extract emails from thousands of internet sites. If you would like to display your e-mail at your website change it to jpeg photo with Photoshop or other image design software.
The use of email blocking tools.
Yahoo for example has this fantastic tool which can block up to 500 e-mails (the Free option, the paid one provide more) and this amount of spam e-mails will never reach your mailbox. Other web mail services provide similar features too.
The preinstalled filter in your e-mail application.
If you use outlook express you can click “message” (from windows 98 versions and later) and then click “Block sender”. Just doing that you will block lots of your uncalled-for emails.
Don't make a response to spam at any price.
When you receive a spam message which asks if you can click a link for who knows what reason (fake unsubscribe and other) do not click on it. If you do that, the spammers will now straight away that they deal with a genuine e-mail.
Don't Ever open unknown messages with attachments.
This is critical. Most of the times the attachment will be a virus (especially if it’s exe or zip format) If you open it you will activate the pathogen it contains and harm your computer. Accept email attachments From widely recognized resources such as mates, business co-workers e.t.c. You should also have installed an antivirus which scans your emails before they're saved into your hard drive.
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