If you’re like most people, your inbox is completely spam infested. No need to be embarrassed, it happens to the best of us- no matter how clean we try to keep our email in-boxes! Whether you are an individual email user, or the member of a non-profit organization, or CEO of a Fortune 500 Company, chances are, your email is available on a few websites out there, which helps contribute to the amount of spam emails you receive. There are ways to reduce the amount of unwanted emails you get- including the following:
Camouflage your email address
If you have a website, or you participate in internet forums, message boards and other online communities, make sure that you never display your real email address in it’s entirety. Email addresses listed online are picked up by computer programs; harvested just like the child who pick berries and fills up her basket at grandma’s house- and then distributed to spammers around the world. When you need to give out your email in a public manner like this, try doing something like this to camouflage it a bit: youremail at yahoo dot com. People can make sense of that and know to replace “at” with @ and “dot” with . You could also create a graphic image of the “@” sign; and that will prevent the harvesting of your email address by automatic crawlers.
Don’t reply to or click or otherwise touch a spam email
