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Too much SPAM - ideas on managing it?
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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 64386" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Other things to remember - </p><p></p><p>1) Do not sign up for things online with your main email account. USe an account you could dispose of if you need to.</p><p></p><p>2) DO NOT reply to ANY SPAM. A lot of these are phishing, trying to see if they have a 'live' account. As soon as you reply, even if it is to unsubscribe, they will sell your email address as one that works. You will get inundated. Only unsubscribe if you joined to begin with.</p><p></p><p>3) You can set up a junk mail box with your existing address. It will depend on what software you are using but a lot of these email programs have the capability to learn to recognise junk and non-junk. It can make life much easier.</p><p></p><p>And finally, something I've begun doing, out of sheer curiosity about the human race - when I get a SPAM that interest me but I don't want to alert them to the fact that I exist, I will research it through the various anti-spam websites. To find them, find a representative chunk of text from the email, copy it, then paste it into Google between double quote marks. You can find out a lot more about how spam works. Knowledge is sometimes the best defence.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 64386, member: 1991"] Other things to remember - 1) Do not sign up for things online with your main email account. USe an account you could dispose of if you need to. 2) DO NOT reply to ANY SPAM. A lot of these are phishing, trying to see if they have a 'live' account. As soon as you reply, even if it is to unsubscribe, they will sell your email address as one that works. You will get inundated. Only unsubscribe if you joined to begin with. 3) You can set up a junk mail box with your existing address. It will depend on what software you are using but a lot of these email programs have the capability to learn to recognise junk and non-junk. It can make life much easier. And finally, something I've begun doing, out of sheer curiosity about the human race - when I get a SPAM that interest me but I don't want to alert them to the fact that I exist, I will research it through the various anti-spam websites. To find them, find a representative chunk of text from the email, copy it, then paste it into Google between double quote marks. You can find out a lot more about how spam works. Knowledge is sometimes the best defence. Marg [/QUOTE]
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