Email Spam? No Please!

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Woke up this morning and found hundreds of unread mails in your inbox?

Do you know how many out of those are Spam Emails? It’s a common misconception that emails in your ‘Inbox’ folder cannot be spam; however spammers these days are extremely smart. Here we explaining what Spam is and how you can safeguard yourself.

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Firstly, what is Spam?Email Spam is Junk Email you receive from unknown senders. Clicking on links within the email might direct you to a phishing website or sites that host malware. Spam email may also include malware as scripts or other executable file attachments.

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Three criteria for Email Spam:

Anonymity - The address and identity of the sender is concealed.

Mass Mailing – The email is sent to large group of people.

Unsolicited – The email is not requested by sender

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But why would anyone send me SPAM?!

Spam email is a simple Math game. The more spam emails a spammer sends, the more likely he or she is to get recipients to respond to the email. If a spam email sender has a list of five million email addresses, only a small fraction of those need to reply to the spam message in order for it to result in significant financial turnover for the spammer.

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How does MONEY come into the picture here?If a person’s sending you Spam, there’s always some gain involved for him. On most occasions, your spammer has committed to a firm that he’ll provide them with your email address so that they can send you their newsletters, etc. Once your email address gets verified, the concerned firm pay the spammer for the mails he sent out.

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So now how do I save myself from being Spammed?

1. Try Disposable Email AddressesUsing your real, primary email address anywhere on the web puts it at risk of being picked up by spammers.  A disposable email address will forward all mail to your real address. But won’t that also send you spam? Not really. If you dispose of the email address, you won’t receive any spam

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So now how do I save myself from being Spammed?2. Every Checkbox isn’t meant to be Ticked!To avoid that,Look closely at every form you fill on the Web andMake sure all relevant checkboxes are not ticked.Sometimes, the text will read: “NO, don’t give away my email address,” and the checkbox will consequently be unchecked by default. Check it.

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So now how do I save myself from being Spammed?3. Disguise your Email Address

To avoid ending on a spammer’s mailing list when you post to a web forum or a newsgroup, you can disguise your email address by inserting something obvious into it.If your email address is me@example.com, you can modify it to read me@EXAdelete_thisMPLE.com, for example. You will not get spam at that email address since all messages to it will bounce.

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So now how do I save myself from being Spammed?4. Domain Owners: Set up Throwaway Addresses to Fight SpamIf you own a domain, you have a great anti-spam tool at hand: your mail server. You simply need to enable the “Catch-All” feature in your email which when activated allows you to catch all of the emails sent to your domain, whether the ID exists or not.

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So now how do I save myself from being Spammed?5. Enable Privacy ProtectYou can also enable the ‘Privacy Protect‘ option for your Domain Name, your Domain provider replaces your Contact Details in the Whois information with it’s generic contact details, thus, masking your personal contact details. BigRock provides this service free of charge and is enabled by default for most domain extensions.

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Remember – Receiving spam is very easy and getting rid of it is equally difficult!BigRock provides you with Anti-Spam filter which checks all your incoming and outgoing emails.

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Take a look at what's included in secured Email Hosting provided by Bigrock:

Email Features:

• Unlimited Webmail/POP3/IMAP/SMTP access

• Blackberry, iPhone & PDA compatible

• Outlook, Thunderbird, Windows Mail compatible

• Advanced Virus and Spam Protection

• Unlimited Email Forwards and Aliases

• Mailing Lists

Web-Based Client Features

• Full HTML Email Support• Online Address Book• Folder Management• Drag and Drop Support• Sorting and Searching

Other Features• RSS & News Feed Compatibility• Total DNS Control• Vacation Auto-Responders• Easy to use Control Panel• No Setup Costs• 24/7 Local support (Phone, Chat, Email

& Web)• 24/7 Security Monitoring and Backup

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