No one likes spam email - customers, clients, and even business owners cannot always handle the amount of spam that comes from one email address placed in a public space on the web. So if you have a website, you will want to check out these five tips that will help to reduce the spam that gets into your inbox.
1.Limit the number of emails that you give out to your customers and post on websites. If you post more than one email address on a website, you will experience twice as many unwanted emails. And if you run a business, you should never post your personal email anywhere on your website. 2.You can include tools such as CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart). This is a small box on your website where you can have words or numbers that come up and the visitors to your site will have to type these in before they are allowed to send messages to you. This prevents automated spam from slipping through. 3.Use web forms instead of giving out your email address. This will let your visitors contact you without ever having to see your email address. This may not cut down on all the spam, but at least you know the spam you are getting was typed by a real person. 4.If you need to give out your email address, spell it out on your website. Leave out the @ symbol so that it is harder for spam bots to recognize it as an email address. Customers that want to send you an email will understand what you mean when you spell it out. Better still create a jpg/gif images of your email address, so that the visitor/customer can see your email address, but the spammers will no be able to find it so easily. 5.If all else fails, you can require a registration for your website. This will let visitors leave you comments and questions. This prevents any spam bots from contacting you or pulling your email address from your website.
These tips are just some of the ways that you can prevent spam on your website. There are obviously many more but this should help to heavy reduce the level of spam emails you receive. If you have a paid web hosting service, most providers now have Junk Mail Filtering services including with their hosting plans or at an additional charge.
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Spam emails. Enough is enough! Estimates are that 80% of all emails received are reported to be unsolicited. Hotdog! You should definitely have some anti-spam software on your computer right now. If you don't want to spend any money, don't worry. There are lots of reliable free spam software available to download, install and use. That's how much people dislike spam!
Here is a suggestion. Start using a spam filter to sort through your emails. A spam filter does not block suspicious emails like a spam blocker does, but rather sends them automatically into specified folders. You can also edit your list so you can customize the filter as to what you think is junk mail and what is not.
The total volume of spam emails being sent out on a daily basis approaches the 100 billion mark. This type of bulk emails are unsolicited and generally a waste of time. You probably already know that spam is unwanted, but is it illegal? A big problem with spam law is that the world wide web has grown so quickly. Electronic mail spam or junk email is an illegal action whereby nearly the same message is sent to multiple email inboxes. Just remember that junk mail is illegal when unsolicited as well as sent in bulk.
Another suggestion is that instead of just deleting spam mail, you should report it. There are spam laws in place that tries to protect legitimate email users from junk mail. Reporting spam mail may lead to the prosecution and fining of spammers.
You can send a copy of the junk mail you received to the Federal Trade Commission. Your submission is then stored ina database. This database is accessable by various consumer protection and law enforcement agencies.
You can also send a copy of the offending email to your internet service provider and to the internet service provider of the spammer. They will normally be glad to get rid of someone who is using their services to send spam mail. You can also report it to a website such as SpamCop.
Spammers use a variety of methods and techniques in order to get around spam filters. Thankfully email filters are adapted to new techniques and methods. However, they will never be 100% effective all the time.
In the fight to stop spam you should arm yourself first with knowledge and then with the right anti-spam tools. There are many anti-spam software available that may filter and prevent junk mail from reaching your inbox. You can look for the following popular software such as Comodo, Mailwasher, SpamTitan or SpamFighter. Then put your knowledge and tools to good use and stop spam in its dirty little tracks.
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