Today I'm going to teach most of you on some important aspect about preventing spam in your mailbox. As you all know, message spams are a total waste of time and they always get more and more once they get hold to your e-mail. I will tell you the top 5 rules that you should never do when you are online at home/school or work.
1) Always keep your e-mail name as long/complicated as possible. This is because spammer has automated e-mail name generator which will send random e-mails spams to users starting with:
a@hotmail.com
b@hotmail.com
And so on...
It will not take them long to accidentally generate your e-mail address if yours is something like ash@hotmail.com
2) When you subscribe to any site(I don't really care if it's porn site or what-so-ever), I'm pretty sure they will send you e-mail verifications right? Sometimes, even when you did not subscribe to that site and they kept on spamming your mailbox, IGNORE them and NEVER click the "unsubscribe from this mailing list". By clicking on the unsubscribe button, you are acknowledging the spammers that your e-mail address is indeed real and this could open the floodgates to even more non-stop spamming.
3) Never post your e-mail in any website. Spammers have spiders which is crawling all over the web to look for the @ symbol, which is always (mostly) e-mail address. If you must really tell someone your e-mail address in the public, try to put it like this instead " Ash at hotmail.com". By doing this, you are safe from the spiders <--- not the real kind of spiders!
4) If you really need to register to a website, try using a temporary e-mail instead. These are e-mails that are generated for you so you can use these e-mails to register to any site you like without compromising your security. These famous temporary e-mails are:
http://www.guerrillamail.com/
http://10minutemail.com/10MinuteMail/index.html
http://www.mailinator.com/
http://www.mailexpire.com/
By using these website, you will never have to reveal your real e-mails anymore when registering to a new site :)
5) Always filter your messages by always reporting all the spam messages. Once clicked report, all similar associated spam message will be listed under spam (depending on the security settings of the e-mail that you've registered to...)1) Always keep your e-mail name as long/complicated as possible. This is because spammer has automated e-mail name generator which will send random e-mails spams to users starting with:
a@hotmail.com
b@hotmail.com
And so on...
It will not take them long to accidentally generate your e-mail address if yours is something like ash@hotmail.com
2) When you subscribe to any site(I don't really care if it's porn site or what-so-ever), I'm pretty sure they will send you e-mail verifications right? Sometimes, even when you did not subscribe to that site and they kept on spamming your mailbox, IGNORE them and NEVER click the "unsubscribe from this mailing list". By clicking on the unsubscribe button, you are acknowledging the spammers that your e-mail address is indeed real and this could open the floodgates to even more non-stop spamming.
3) Never post your e-mail in any website. Spammers have spiders which is crawling all over the web to look for the @ symbol, which is always (mostly) e-mail address. If you must really tell someone your e-mail address in the public, try to put it like this instead " Ash at hotmail.com". By doing this, you are safe from the spiders <--- not the real kind of spiders!
4) If you really need to register to a website, try using a temporary e-mail instead. These are e-mails that are generated for you so you can use these e-mails to register to any site you like without compromising your security. These famous temporary e-mails are:
http://www.guerrillamail.com/
http://10minutemail.com/10MinuteMail/index.html
http://www.mailinator.com/
http://www.mailexpire.com/
By using these website, you will never have to reveal your real e-mails anymore when registering to a new site :)
BONUS TIPS:
Sell your pc and live in a deserted island for the rest of your life. That is probably the only way avoid spams 100% :)
Signing off,
Bluedrake a.k.a. Shippoukitsune
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