What to do with Spam Emails?

Monday, March 15, 2010


Email has been playing an important role in most people’s life, today. It’s easy to contact someone via email even after years since a person might get his address, PIN code or even telephone or cell number changed, but you can always find him on his email. But like they say, “Every good thing has some bad shades”, Email is no exception. The worst nightmare that’s happening with Email users is spam. Spam means junk emailsthat has nothing to do with us and many times they are just some cheap marketing ads or fraud emails to cheat people.
Each and everyday people are getting millions of spam emails in their mail boxes. All leading email service providers like Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail etc are using smart Spam protection filters to send such type of junks emails directly to your Spam box folder, but you should be careful enough with those emails since they are present inside your email box.
email spam
Here are some tips that you should follow to stay protected :
  1. Never click anywhere in a spam email
  2. Never forward or reply to spam mails
  3. Don’t ever get fooled by “Click Here to Unsubscribe” links inside spam emails
  4. Don’t get fooled by “You have won $1000000 Lottery” emails
  5. Select all spam emails and delete them from your mailbox entirely
Spam mails can not only be a headache factor but also can steal your sensitive informative if you try to play with them. So, it’s better to delete them immediately to stay protected and secure.

(From: Solid Blogger)

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