There are various types of spam found on the internet. One is the "Congratulations! You Have Won!" emails, also known as the letter fraud emails. These offer you the chance to get a cut of millions of dollars that the sender is trying to illegally transfer out of some banana republic in the middle of nowhere. These emails ask you to send back information indicating your bank details and account numbers via a fax number provided. Soon thereafter, they will be asking you to send them money of increasing amounts - and therein lays the fraud. And if you are gullible enough you will send them the money but never get to see a cent of your purported "cut".
I think I can safely say that we all hate spam! And no one with an email account can say they have been 100% immune to this nuisance. No one likes to go to their inbox and find all the junk of unsolicited mail that is spam. So what can we do in order to protect ourselves from this menace?
First of all, ensure that you have kept both your anti-virus and anti-spam software updated and current. Also install an email package that will filter the spam from your provider to prevent you from receiving any spam. Good spam filters come in the form of either software or hardware. In the event that you receive emails from persons you know but do not wish to communicate with, you may simple employ the blacklisting feature to block any further emails.
Another thing to avoid doing is publicly publishing your email address on the internet. This is because a spammer may scrape your email address from a site that you visited and include it in their database. Also try not to divulge your email address while visiting internet forums and chat rooms. If you must disclose your email, either use a non-business personal account address or create a different account specifically for allowing communication on such sites. For guaranteed effect, have your email security service provider block all unwanted mail before it gets to your network and this way you may avoid spam entirely.
There are also the emails that seem at first glance to be genuine but turn out to be spam originating from a malicious sender. Such spoof and phishing emails should at no time be opened. Delete them immediately then contact the website of the online business that purportedly sent you the mail to find out whether or not it was a genuine communication from them.
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