How Can Spam Emails Be Stopped

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Receiving junk emails which are either silly, or making some fantastic claims about products may not seem like a big deal. After all, arent there more worthy causes to get uptight about, rather than receiving the odd junk mail? Well, in some ways this may be true, but for people to understand the problem with spam emails, they have to understand some facts behind spam.

For a start, spam emails costs us all money. People who receive spam emails at work lose time due to dealing with junk emails. This in turn costs the business they work for money.

In addition many people are distressed by spam. Many people have been defrauded of money, due to spam emails being received from a spammer who purports to be their bank or building society. Some people have even fallen prey to spammers who pretend to be sick, or who have been left money and need a UK bank account to be able to transfer funds etc. Whilst it is easy with hindsight to look back and think that people were gullible to fall for these kind of scams, at the time, many people were simply unaware of spam, so they didnt think there was anything to fear.

So spam is not some innocent and harmless inconvenience. It can literally clog peoples inboxes and cause distress, so it should be stopped. But it is actually quite difficult to prevent spammers getting hold of your address, although increasingly more and more software is becoming available to ensure that all spam mails are filtered out.

One thing you can do to stop spam by yourself, is to use a slightly different email address when you are on a social networking site, such as MySpace or Facebook. Instead of using the @ symbol before your service provider, use at or better still AT, so you would be jane.smithAT (then service provider) rather than jane.smith@ then your service provide.

Since some email addresses are targeted by guesswork, you can reduce the chances of being found by using an underscore or a number. Thus jane_smith79_2@ service provider will have a lesser chance of being guessed correctly by software.

You can also report spam to the Information Commissioners Office or to businesses such as google or yahoo who are all working to reduce the amount of spam on the internet, but there is a long way to go before it is completely eradicated.

Author Resource:- David Sprake of email.biz hates spam email and looks at reducing spam to email addresses