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How To Reduce Spam!
The internet has brought us so many great
things but is also brought us a few bad things and one
of those things is SPAM. Everyone gets spam and we all
hate it. Some people are targeted ruthlessly, especially
those with websites, receiving hundreds per day. Did you
know that about 40% of emails that are sent are Spam? It
is annoying, frustrating and sometimes a very serious
problem for some people. It can be dangerous because
some messages are sent with viruses and Trojans wh...
How to reduce SPAM,
The internet has brought
us so many great things but is also brought us a few bad
things and one of those things is SPAM. Everyone gets
spam and we all hate it. Some people are targeted
ruthlessly, especially those with websites, receiving
hundreds per day. Did you know that about 40% of emails
that are sent are Spam? It is annoying, frustrating and
sometimes a very serious problem for some people. It can
be dangerous because some messages are sent with viruses
and Trojans which can be used to steal your personal
information.
Spammers buy lists of email
addresses from a list broker. If your email address
appears in a newsgroup posting, on a website, in a chat
room, or in an online service's membership directory, it
is very possible it may find its way onto these lists.
The spammer then uses special software that can send
hundreds of thousands — even millions — of email
messages to the addresses at the click of a mouse.
Filtering Spam wastes time and money, it is
something we shouldn’t have to do. It is worth using
software to combat it. There are so many different types
of Anti-Spam on the market today who knows which is
best. Buying the most expensive doesn’t necessarily mean
it’s the best.
Here are a few things you should
remember to try and reduce the amount of Spam you
receive:
•NEVER open Spam or Attachments in a
Spam email- if you do, you run the risk of infecting
your machine with viruses and Trojans.
•DO NOT
click the unsubscribe link- this just confirms to them
your email address is correct.
•Use different
email accounts for different purposes for example, one
for work one for your personal life and one for online
shopping.
•DO NOT display your email address in
public. That includes newsgroup postings, chat rooms,
websites or in an online service's membership directory.
•Check the privacy policy when you submit your
address to a website.
•Use an email filter. Check
your email account to see if it provides a tool to
filter out potential spam or a way to channel spam into
a bulk email folder. Or buy an email filter.
Unless we all try to fight spam it will only get worse.
We need to all be aware of the dangers of leaving our
personal information on websites, forums or chat rooms.
Using spam filters is one way to fight the spammers and
I would recommend we all use one.
If you are
really fed up with Spam and none of the above reduces
the amount you receive you could report it to the
Federal Trade Commission. If the “remove me” request is
not honoured you can send a copy of unwanted or
deceptive messages to spam@uce.gov. You could complain
by filling out the FTC’s online compliant form on their
site: www.ftc.gov. The FTC uses the unsolicited emails
stored in this database to pursue law enforcement
actions against people who send deceptive spam email.
How to Reduce Spam
in Your Inbox and Enhance Your Email Security
Understand what Spam is and why it is a
computer security risk. Discover simple tips and
strategies to fight spam and reduce the security threat
from email.
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Spam is the internet’s equivalent of junk mail. Spam
is defined as an e-mail message sent to people without
their consent or permission. Addresses of recipients are
often harvested from Usenet postings or web pages,
obtained from databases, or simply guessed by using
common names and domains.
Spam is sent to promote
practically any product or service ranging from “Adult”
products to logo design for websites. It is also used by
hackers to spread viruses or links to dangerous websites
used to gather your personal information like credit
card details or passwords for sites like Ebay or PayPal.
To the average user these messages appear genuine. Even
the link has a genuine looking domain name. This
technique is known as “Phishing.”
Here are some
smart strategies and tips you can employ now to start
reducing Spam and boost your email security.
-
Configure your anti virus software to automatically scan
your incoming email for viruses. Email is still widely
used to distribute malicious software. Make sure you
keep your anti virus software definitions up to date.
- If you are someone that frequently signs up for
“freebies” or other stuff on the internet start using a
separate e-mail account just for this purpose. Accounts
from providers like Yahoo!, Hotmail, and Google’s Gmail
all come with generous storage as standard.
- If
sites don’t accept free e-mail address from the services
listed above then use a free disposable email service
like Sneakemail - http://www.sneakemail.com.
- If you
are posting your email to a blog or your website then
submit it in a way that is only recognizable to a human.
For example if your email is johndoe@hotmail.com then
post it as “johndoe at hotmail.com”.
- Never open a
message from an address you do not recognize – always
delete it straight away. This is especially so if there
is an attachment. Never reply to a message as this only
confirms the email address is “live” to the spammers.
- If you get an official looking message from your bank
or Ebay or another site you are not sure is genuine here
is what you do. Instead of clicking on the link embedded
in the mail log on to the site normally via your
browser. If there are any genuine serious problems you
should get a message when you log on. Alternatively
contact the site’s customer service via the phone if
possible.
- Consider using standalone spam filtering
software. This software analyses your email for common
characteristics of spam email including words like
“click” or “teens.” It also compares senders’ emails
against a “Friends List.” Try Mailwasher for free here -
http://www.mailwasher.net.
How To Get E-mail
Spam Banned At Subconscious Level
I don’t think I have to tell you that spam
sucks big time. It sucks so much that people hate spam
and spammers. People are wasting countless hours
deleting spam, writing complaints, tracking down
spammers (today it is a completely hopeless thing
because spammers are using networks of zombie PCs that
are not even aware they are used to send the spam). I
used to be a “warrior with a spam” some time ago, and
amount of spam I was getting, was growing and growing,
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I
don’t think I have to tell you that spam sucks big time.
It sucks so much that people hate spam and spammers.
People are wasting countless hours deleting spam,
writing complaints, tracking down spammers (today it is
a completely hopeless thing because spammers are using
networks of zombie PCs that are not even aware they are
used to send the spam). I used to be a “warrior with a
spam” some time ago, and amount of spam I was getting,
was growing and growing, no matter what filters I used
to filter out that junk.
Than I saw a movie “The
Secret” and it all just snapped it. What you resist,
persist. I am resisting spammers, I hate them, I fight
them, I spend my valuable time trying to take them down,
and it just doesn’t help. I am getting more and more
junk mail. But that’s exactly what was explained in the
movie – Law of Attraction does not care whether you want
something, or you hate something. If you concentrate on
it, it will increase in your life. I was manifesting
more and more spam in my life, myself, just by hating
it!
Well, the decision was pretty obvious – stop
fighting, let go. Ignore spam. Don’t pull out hair on my
legs when I get a mailbox flooded. Just delete it, and
forget it. Better said then done! The very next time I
got my box flooded with junk I jumped up again and in
seconds was at spamcop.net filing complaints. But hey,
that’s exactly what I was trying to avoid! But I can not
just sit there and meditate “I am cool, I am cool, I
don’t care about spam, I don’t care about spam, damn
it!” – it would not work. I have those automatic
reactions and I seem to be reacting that particular way
no matter how hard I try not to…
Hopeless
situation? Not exactly. There are ways to actually
deprogram automatic subconscious reactions. Remove
emotional roots from them, and render them harmless. One
is EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique by Gary Craig), and
another is BSFF (Be Set Free Fast by Larry Nims) – you
can read more about them on my site. I used both of
them. First, with EFT I removed an immediate instinct to
jump up and kill someone each time I received a junk
mail. I think 15 minutes of EFT tapping was enough to
get rid of the intensity. Then I took a piece of paper
and wrote:
I hate spammers
It was the name
of the whole problem that I intended to treat with BSFF.
BSFF works deep with emotional roots of discomfort, and
that’s exactly what I was about to do. So, I took this
problem (“I hate spammers”) and broke it down to smaller
aspects:
I hate when I get this penis enlargement
stuff
I hate replica watches
I hate small caps
I hate when I have to waste my time to try tracking them
down
I hate spending my time at spamcop.net
I hate
casinos
I hate when my spam filters eat important
mail
I hate spammers
I wish I could do something
to them physically
Etc.
I was writing it down
until it finished coming out. At the end, I got a neat
page full of negative stuff. Then, I simply treated each
statement with a cue word from BSFF protocol and voila –
my subconscious sorted it out and removed all emotional
roots from the problems. When changes integrated (it
took 2 days for rewiring in my brain to start to take
effects) I simply stopped caring about spam. I still got
it but I don’t jump up every time, I don’t go to
spamcop, I don’t complain anymore. I just delete it. And
go back to work. No more hatred, no more stomach ulcers,
no more family dramas because of spam overload at work.
I just don’t give a damn.
And now the funny part.
Once I removed automatic emotional response and started
to visualize my mailbox clean and neat, the amount of
spam reduced dramatically, in a full accordance with Law
of Attraction…