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Spam is an annoyance that has been around as long as the Internet itself. Every one of us who has an active email account and who is a frequent user of the Internet has more than likely experienced the growing problem of spam at some point.


Whether you use your email account for business or for pleasure it doesn’t matter to the spammer, all the matters to them is getting their message across to you. Once we have fallen victim to our first spam email the process never seems to stop; we just seem to start getting more and more and we are left wondering how the spammers got our email account address in the first place. Spammers ‘harvest’ our email addresses off the Internet. If you have ever posted your email address anywhere on the Internet such as a forum then chances are you are being signed to a spammers mailing list as we speak. Many people class spam as unsolicited and commercial when it really should merely be classes as automated. As that is the way spammers send their mail; it is automated. However it should be noted that if you are signed up to newsletters or if you have purchased anything from the Internet you will still be sent emails about these things even though these are also classed as being automated.

The most common content of spam messages are products being advertised, which makes up 25% of spam messages, financial messages, which is 20% of spam messages, adult content, 19% of spam sent and health/pharmaceuticals being 7% of the spam that we receive. All of these aspects make up the 90 billion spam messages that are sent everyday, which makes up 80-85% of all of our incoming emails.

The one thing that spammers have to do is to deliver their message. Although spammers seem to get around all other forms of barriers that are created through the use of spam filters, so if we can create filters that can stop spam primarily on the message there would be no way of getting around it. This would work, for example, if you set the filter to look for the word click. Just by doing this and setting your filter to stop one word you would catch 79.7% of spam emails. So what would happen if spammers sent their messages containing merely images? Well some spammers already do this and sometimes get caught but if you want to ensure that you catch all of them you can set your filter to scan for HTML as well as the text of your message. This will work due to the fact the email message will more than likely contain a URL to a spam site as well as containing text with the image name that will be deemed as spam by your filter.

One thing that is worse than receiving spam emails however is getting false positives blocked by your filter. False positives are genuine emails that we wish to receive that get caught up in our email filters. When the filters that we are using becomes extremely good at what they are designed to do we start to not notice what these filters are catching, meaning that we could be losing genuine mail. To stop this from happening it is important that you keep a check on what your spam filter is doing.

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Do not open an unsolicited email. Spammers are just playing a numbers game. They simply send out like a million emails and hope that at least a third of them stick. Spammers try to gather as many email addresses as they can. They don’t even know if any of the addresses are active. It is when you answer them that they know whether or not it is an active account that is checked often.

2. Do NOT Click On the Unsubscribe Links

It is natural for you to want to click on the link at the bottom of the email that promises that you can be taken off of their email list, but do not think for a second that this is what happens.

When you click on the “click here if you wish to stop receiving these emails” link, the spammers simply change the name that sends it to you. All you have proven is that you are indeed opening and reading emails.

3. Use Various Email Addresses

Since it is unavoidable to receive spam, set up a “dummy” email address. You would use this address when you register for newsletters, order products, enter contests, and register your new software.

You would like to avoid using you primary email address, or the email address that you receive from your ISP for things like that. This is the email that you would give your contacts or “safe people”.

4. Don’t Post Your Address

If you have a web site, avoid posting your email address in your “contact me” section.
Since spammers scan through web sites and look for the @ symbol, write your email address with the word “at” instead.

That makes it a bit more difficult for spammers to find your email address because they use special software that searches for the symbol, and not just the words.

5. Do Not Purchase from Spam

The absolute worst thing that you could do is buy something from spam. Just imagine how perfect the world would be if everyone gathered together to refuse to buy things that were offered in an unsolicited email. Spammers would be out of business the moment that they realized that they weren’t getting anywhere.

6. Beware of Free Trial Software

For every legitimate download, there are plenty that are designed to get your personal information, which will eventually lead you to more spam. This is particularly popular from free trial software as well as free software.

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Since the introduction of the Internet to the public, spam has been in existence and has become more and more of a growing concern and problem. Everyone who uses the Internet, especially with an email account has probably experienced a form of spam. I don’t actually think it is possible anymore to have a email account where no spam is received without the help of a spam filter.

The problem of spam on the Internet has reached a sorry state of affairs and drastic action is needed before the situation escalades even further. By just changing a few Internet ‘habits’ you could prevent a certain amount of spam from reaching your inbox. For many of us Internet use is part of our daily lives. Many of us work in an environment where using email and the Internet is part of our job description. Due to this it is important that you follow some ‘guidelines’ of how to use the Internet and especially email without opening yourself up to the chance of receiving more spam.

These ‘guidelines’ should include the following:

Use more than one email account
Many of us find the need to regularly post in forums and newsgroups etc. This is a problem straight away as putting your email address anywhere on the Internet means the likelihood of it becoming flooded with spam is extremely high. If you do need to use your email address on the Internet you should set up numerous email accounts to stop your actual main email account from being overload with spam.

It is suggested that you set up an email account for use of friends and family as well as being the mail account that you use for your msn. This email account will probably be classed as your main email account. You should then set up another account for use at work to ensure that your work email account doesn’t get loaded with spam messages, meaning you can easily access the emails that you need direct access to. Also if you shop regularly online why not set one up primarily for your shopping needs.

Never make contact with a spammer
When you start to receive spam emails a spammer will look for signs that your email account is active, meaning that you use it on a regular basis. There are certain actions that you take that demonstrate to a spammer that your account is being used. If you reply to a spammer stating that you do not wish to receive any more emails or if you ‘unsubscribe’ all you are doing is giving a spammer more fuel to send you emails. You should never make contact with a spammer, they don’t care if you want to unsubscribe they will just spam you more as you have read their email, which brings me to my next point don’t even open an email message off a spammer, if they think for a second that you are reading the emails that they send you, you will simply get sent more.

Another point to be aware of when it comes to bulk mail is the use of viruses. 65% of unwanted emails contain a virus emphasising the fact that you should never open attachments from email addresses that you don’t know. Due to this growing number of computer viruses due to unsolicited mail it is important that, if you don’t already have one, you install an anti-virus on your computer and regularly keep it updated.

By: helen1

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Helen is the web master of MySpamBin, specialists in all of your Spam Blocker needs. Please feel free to republish this article providing this resource box remains intact with a working hyperlink to our site.

 

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1. Ignore Spam Email

Do not open an unsolicited email. Spammers are just playing a numbers game. They simply send out like a million emails and hope that at least a third of them stick.

Spammers try to gather as many email addresses as they can. They don’t even know if any of the addresses are active. It is when you answer them that they know whether or not it is an active account that is checked often.

2. Do NOT Click On the Unsubscribe Links

It is natural for you to want to click on the link at the bottom of the email that promises that you can be taken off of their email list, but do not think for a second that this is what happens.

When you click on the “click here if you wish to stop receiving these emails” link, the spammers simply change the name that sends it to you. All you have proven is that you are indeed opening and reading emails.

3. Use Various Email Addresses

Since it is unavoidable to receive spam, set up a “dummy” email address. You would use this address when you register for newsletters, order products, enter contests, and register your new software.

You would like to avoid using you primary email address, or the email address that you receive from your ISP for things like that. This is the email that you would give your contacts or “safe people”.

4. Don’t Post Your Address

If you have a web site, avoid posting your email address in your “contact me” section.
Since spammers scan through web sites and look for the @ symbol, write your email address with the word “at” instead.

That makes it a bit more difficult for spammers to find your email address because they use special software that searches for the symbol, and not just the words.

5. Do Not Purchase from Spam

The absolute worst thing that you could do is buy something from spam. Just imagine how perfect the world would be if everyone gathered together to refuse to buy things that were offered in an unsolicited email. Spammers would be out of business the moment that they realized that they weren’t getting anywhere.

6. Beware of Free Trial Software

For every legitimate download, there are plenty that are designed to get your personal information, which will eventually lead you to more spam. This is particularly popular from free trial software as well as free software.

By: eva cassidy

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The resent Link Spam Statistics survey has proved that China and USA have a tarnished reputation of holding the outstanding positions in the list of spam distributors. It is easy to realize that the inspection hasn’t been done just to censure the US for spam distribution, European countries in total have higher percentage of unsolicited e-mail than the US do. The worldwide spam is perennially going up and in respect of 2006 it has rised by 9 percent. The leaders of junk e-mail catalogue barring USA and China are: South Korea with 6.5 percent unsolicited e-mail, then Poland with 4.8 percent, Germany with 4.2 percent, Brazil 4.1 percent, France 3.3 percent, Russia 3.1 percent, Turkey 2.9 percent, UK with 2.8 percent, Italy with 2.8 percent and India with 2.5 percent.

The top-ranked expert of Sophos declares that people don’t use computers properly sending round unsolicited e-mail. But the easiest way to overcome it is using CAPTCHA system and Anti Spam methods which can detect unsolicited e-mail. She has admitted that countries should work together to make an attempt to overcome unsolicited e-mail. Paul Ducking illuminated increasing the amount of junk e-mail distributors: “Junk e-mail includes lots of subjects from suggesting various services to promoting many sorts of produces.”. He notifies in advance that spammers are prepared to use technologies illegally from any location in order to send junk e-mail. “The map shows activity almost all over the world.” he notes, “Africa may not yet be very well-wired, but it’s no doubt wired enough to be useful to the spam distributors.”. Protectwebform fulfilled its own research in the realm of junk e-mail. Those conclusions differs from Sopho’s analysis, but they are very necessary to observe. The spam analysis was carried out in the next way: a lot of experimental e-mail boxes were created and then they analyzed quantity and origins of entered junk e-mail massages. Using reliable technologies experts defined senders IP-addresses, owing to that fact, they managed to precisely say which state the spam e-mail message had come from. Concerning states-unsolicited e-mail-providers, the leading position is taken by USA, having 38 percent of general quantity of spam messages. Next, having a huge lag, comes China with 5.3 percent, Ukraine with 4.7 percent and Russia with 3.8 percent. The European countries are: just Spain – 3.2 percent, Germany - 2.8 percent and Italy – 1.7 percent came upon the roll. Spam e-mail-messages circulation into subjects was completed in the following way. Derived unsolicited e-mail messages were classified by their topics to several groups so that later the catalogue of them could be compiled.

The first place is occupied by “Drug and Medications” topic with 24.7 percent, the second position - by “Finance” with 16.6 percent. Another popular subjects are “Phones & Ringtones” – 6.8 percent, “Adult” – 5.6 percent and “Gambling Institutions” – 4.2 percent.

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