Some measures to reduce spam

Spam is a common and often annoying component in email accounts. If you have no way to remove spam sent to your email, try some of the ways we introduce below.

So what is spam?

Spam is understood as spam. The term Spam is electronic mail that is received without request, often unwanted messages. Spam does not necessarily contain viruses, valid messages sent from authentic sources may still be classified as spam.

How to reduce the amount of spam?

We will show you a few steps to reduce spam as follows:

• Avoid spreading email addresses arbitrarily - Email has become quite popular today, you can be asked for an email address anywhere - even in a comment card at restaurants. Normally it is harmless, so people write their email addresses without thinking about what will happen to that information. A concrete example to prove the purpose of others using your email address: companies often write email addresses into databases so they can keep in touch with customers and guest preferences. line. However, some of these email lists are sold to be shared with other companies, so naturally you can receive emails that you didn't request.

• Check privacy terms - Before sending an email address online, search for privacy terms. Most trustworthy websites have a link about their privacy, those links are usually in the form of personal data registration. You should read these terms before submitting your information, as this will help you know what the website owner will do with that information.

• Look at the default options - When you register for accounts or services, there may be an option to choose whether or not to receive emails about other products and services. Sometimes these options are set by default, so if you do not deselect them, you may start receiving unwanted emails of this type.

• Use filters - Many email programs allow you to filter spam email addresses, or allow email from only the addresses on your list. Many ISPs provide filtering or 'tagging' spam, but as such, some legitimate messages that are rated as spam may be removed before reaching your inbox. However, many ISPs that offer mail filtering services have options for suspicious spam tagging, so users can easily identify them. This will be very useful if you share it with the ability to filter spam in email programs.

• Do not enter links in spam - Many spam relies on an email available, try to change, and then send to some other address with the same domain. If you click on a link in a spam or reply to that email address, you accidentally confirmed that your email address exists. Unwanted messages containing 'unsubscribe' options often have a special effect, as it is also a way to get a valid email address and then other spam will continue. sent to.

• Disable the automatic download of HTML graphic mail - Many spammers (spammers) send HTML mail with a graphic file with links to then use to check who opened the email - when your computer Downloading graphics from their web server is when they know you opened the mail. Please disable HTML mail completely and view the message in a simple format to prevent this problem.

• Think about opening more email accounts - Many domains offer free email accounts. If you regularly send an email address (for online shopping, registration for services such as comment cards .), you may want to have a secondary email account to protect the main email from spam. You should use the secondary email account when sending online newsletters, in chat rooms, public mailing lists . to get rid of spam flooding in the main email.

• Never spam others - Be a careful and responsible user. Many people believe that emails are forwarded as a type of spam, so be careful with the messages you forward. Do not forward all messages to everyone in the address and if someone asks you not to forward messages to them, you must respect that request.