SPAM - How do I get Rid of Spam
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What Is SPAM?
It is unwanted commercial email and most times very annoying in the sense that it doen't make sense to you or anyone. If someone is ignorant about such kinds of emails, you can find it including offers with weired sums of money, for example you can get an email saying "You Have Won 1000 USD" and that you should follow a link and put in you details then they will get to you.
And most times these emails come from strangers, so the best think to do is to even ask yourself if you know the person. Take steps to limit the amount of spam you get, and treat spam offers the same way you would treat an uninvited telemarketing sales call. Don't believe promises from strangers.
How Can I REDUCE the amount of SPAM I get?
1. Email Filter
The first thing to do is to use an email filter. You need to check your account to see if it uses a tool to filter out potential spam or to channel spam into a bulk email folder. The ISP's you are going to use play a pivotal role in doing this and it is vital for anyone to ask how this goes about. Most of the international platforms like google, hotmail, yahoo, provide filters, so is the same within the logical infrastructure of DICTS mailing platform that serves the entire Makerere community.
2. Limit your exposure.
You might decide to use two email addresses — one for personal messages and one for shopping, newsletters, chat rooms, coupons and other services. You also might consider using a disposable email address service that forwards messages to your permanent account. If one of the disposable addresses begins to receive spam, you can shut it off without affecting your permanent address.
Also, try not to display your email address in public. That includes on blog posts, in chat rooms, on social networking sites, or in online membership directories. Spammers use the web to harvest email addresses.
3. Check privacy policies and uncheck boxes.
Check the privacy policy before you submit your email address to a website. See if it allows the company to sell your email to others. You might decide not to submit your email address to websites that won't protect it.
When submitting your email address to a website, look for pre-checked boxes that sign you up for email updates from the company and its partners [For example in Gmail or yahoo, there is always a checkbox against your email that says keep me signed in or after logging in a pop up comes telling you to remember password or not, and the naive people many times end up allowing and browsers have the capability of retaining your password and this can be scanned by Malware sent to computers through attachments and download links]. Some websites allow you to opt out of receiving these mass emails.
4. Choose a unique email address.
Your choice of email addresses may affect the amount of spam you receive. Spammers send out millions of messages to probable name combinations at large ISPs and email services, hoping to find a valid address. Thus, a common name such as jdoe may get more spam than a more unique name like j26d0e34. Of course, there is a downside - it's harder to remember an unusual email address.
For me see link on how to help reduce spam for everyone else.