How To Protect Your Email ID From Spammers?
March 17th, 2010 | 
Author: How To Protect Your Email ID From Spammers?
You must be one of them experiencing a lot of unwanted emailsflooding into your mail box every day. It is annoying and a”daily” problem for many.
How do the spammers find your email? They can find your emailaddress either in the text of a web page or in a mailto link.The spammers enjoy harvesting the emails and ultimately thoseemails are spammed with junk mails.
I came to know about some simple methods to protect our emailIDs from spammers which I hope may be of some help to you too.
1. While leaving your email address on the web page or on a textmessage or on a discussion board write like this usernamedomainname. com Please note the space in between. Then duringthe harvesting process it won’t work easily.
2. Write your email like this username at the domainname.comor net or edu whatever it may be.
3. Use a web form. Those who genuinely want to contact you willfill the form with their details and get in touch with you. Soyou know who is contacting you.
4. Never reply to a spam email. Many advise that replying to aspam email confirms your email address to the spammer.
5. While leaving your email address for filling up a form to getmore information please check with their privacy policy toensure that they won’t misuse your email for any other purposeother than the one you’ve requested.
6. Make use of your email provider’s filtering facility toreduce spam.
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