The word Spam indicates junk mail, that is, of email messages that you would not like to receive. Spam has always existed and is almost a natural side effect of internet communication.
Anyone can make spam: just send an advertising message to the whole address book asking maybe to spread it, which already can be considered spam.
The best spammers are able to send the same message simultaneously to more than a billion people.
Ninth spam messages are now only innocent advertisements for products or services, but they are mostly attempts to scam and phish.
All emails regarding contests, winnings, draws, offers, loan or investment requests, all emails where the bank asks to confirm data, messages with adult content and all that is advertising (unauthorized) is SPAM.
The biggest annoyance of spam is certainly to waste time reading the messages arrived in the mailbox.
The most dangerous effect instead is to fall victim to a scam, believing good messages that instead hide viruses or scams.
Defending yourself from Mail Spam and avoiding receiving junk e-mail is very difficult, but not an impossible task if you take basic precautions and use the most modern e-mail management tools.
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1) Never spread your primary email address on forums, blogs, messages or other websites.
Spammers can easily find it by scanning the network with special programs.
In the article on how to block spam emails we have seen some ways to publish an email address on the internet so as not to end it in a list of spammers.
2) Avoid registering with your email address to unknown websites or without a reputation.
In these cases there are very useful tools such as mail aliases or filters with Gmail aliases that allow you to target any spam in order to keep it separate from the main message box.
Even more useful are the temporary Email services that allow you to create disposable email addresses, good only for registering on any site, forum or blog without giving our main address.
When possible, it is very convenient to register on the sites using a Google or Facebook account.
3) Use one of the best mail services namely Gmail, Yahoo Mail or Microsoft Outlook.com (I would therefore avoid Libero Mail).
In addition to being services rich in advanced functions, they also use automatic technologies to filter spam and automatically exclude it from receiving messages.
In addition, these mail managers (which can also be used without changing email addresses) have a function to report spam and prevent the reception of similar messages.
In Gmail it is also possible to block emails from senders and unwanted addresses, which is a very effective measure to avoid receiving recurring advertisements.
In Gmail and Outlook.com, you can easily unsubscribe from newsletters
4) In the case of emails sent to several people, one should try not to send them with the addresses of the recipients in the clear, but hidden in CCN, which is the best way to not enter very annoying mailing lists or chains of Saint Anthony.
Despite this, it will be impossible to avoid, for example, that a friend's PC is infected with a virus that steals his entire address book (including ours) by inserting it en masse in a spam list, including international .
For this reason it is important to use one of the most solid Email services as seen in point 3 of this article, because these are able to preventively prevent spam by recognizing it automatically.
5) Trying to fight spammers is often unnecessary .
With all the spam emails that you receive, going to defend yourself by making complaints about each of them, it could be a really demanding job and probably without results.
In fact, the postal police will hardly listen to these complaints that, for most cases, will remain only a statistical number.
6) Never reply to spam emails because they come from bogus addresses.
For advertising emails, however, if they are not really fraudulent, you should always find a link to click (written Unsubscribe) to unsubscribe from the newsletter and stop receiving emails in the future.
Spam is and will always be very annoying for anyone, but if you work taking into account the recommendations described above, we should, if not avoid it entirely, at least limit it severely.
