All About AntiSpam Software

Spam mail is a plague that seems to be getting worse and worse everyday. A friend of mine recently told me that he was getting 700-900 spam emails a day. He was spending all his time reading and deleting spam.

Here is what I told him to help out the situation.

1. :

   Create an email address using Hotmail or Yahoo Free web mail. Every time you sign up online for something like a forum or free trial, use this throw away address. Keep your main email address for more important things.

: Setup your bulk filters on your email client program properly. I have mine setup so that anything with the word BULK in the subject line automatically gets put into the delete folder. You still have to scan through your delete folder to make sure that a legitimate email wasn't placed in there.

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Pay close attention, so you do not fall victim of this scam. Just read and discover what it is all about.

This type of scam, allows scammers to commit identity theft. (Scammers are people that send junk, spam, fake emails, phone pretending to be someone else.) (Identity theft occurs when scammers steal private information from you like passwords, credit card numbers, phone numbers etc)

The scammer most often asks for:

1) Your social security number
2) Birth date
3) Credit card numbers or other private information (sometimes)

The scammer makes up a fake story. He calls the victim saying he works for the local court and tells the victim that he has failed to report for jury duty. He also tells him/her that a warrant has been issued for his/her arrest.

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Spam cam easily be identified once you understand some key elements of spam messages.

A real life example of a scam sent to my gmail account.

Dear Gmail customer,

From now if you need more than 2 GB of space use this invitation and upgrade your account to 100 GB of space also you can register one free domain name via this invitation your account upgrade will done after 24 hours

Your invitation code is : http://upgradegmail-CLICKSAFE.com/G....fakephisher (I edited link here so it is not clickbable)

Thank You
Gmail Support Department

You can easily understand it is spam just by reading the email. Gmail, Google company will also write email addressing you

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