A user of the e-mail has several ways to protect yourself
from spam. First of all, however, is to realize that the email address should
be considered as something extremely personal, just like the phone number or
the credit card, and then it must be a bit 'of caution before you communicate
it to others. The measures that personally you can take to reduce the amount of
spam in your inbox are therefore:
do not give your e-mail lightly - the e-mail has become so
common - both on the internet and in normal daily life - that appears in every
form where you require your personal details, on business cards , on car
bodies, on the "comment cardsâ €? the restaurant, etc. All this at first
glance may seem harmless, but be aware that many companies register their
e-mail addresses in their customer database in order to trace the habits of
consumption. It may happen that with our consent, or even violating privacy
laws, these lists are sold or shared with other companies or they fall into the
hands of criminals.
Check that it is protected privacy - before signing a new
e-mail address or personal information to fill out an electronic form, check
that they are mentioned measures concerning the protection of information and
personal data, in particular the sale of these data to third parts;
Pay attention to the active options when you subscribe to
new services - sometimes it can happen that are marked for "defaultâ €?
boxes contemplating sending mail from third parties or publication of certain
address lists, etc ... In this case, remove the "sign of spuntaâ € ?;
Have multiple e-mail addresses - many domains (free, gmail,
etc.) Offer free email accounts, for this reason it is recommended to create a
new e-mail account to be used for purposes other than the official or in all
situations where you are not sure that the other person does not make a proper
use of our e-mail. There are also sites like www.tempinbox.com that provide
email accounts "use and gettaâ € ?, free and without registration. This
way you can avoid providing the e-mail main websites, services, demos, forums,
or vendors that require a confirmation e-mail for registration;
Address munging (translation of the address) - is the
publication, on a website or a discussion group, the address changed by the
addition of other characters that make it unusable for a car but recognizable
and usable for a person. Examples of address munging are
andrea_NOSPAM@uniud.it, pieroTOGLIMISEVUOIRISPONDEREALLAMAIL@uniud.it etc. This
technique, very popular in the nineties, showed many limitations and it is now
preferable to publish an e-mail and secondary unmodified be abandoned if you
receive too much spam;
Avoid opening e-mail spam - is best to avoid scams or
receive additional spam. Not always, however, it is easy to see without opening
it if a message is spam or not. In this case you should open it by following
the advice given below.
Do not click on the link inside the e-mail spam - there are
programs (called in the jargon "Bota €? Or" spiderâ €?) That
automatically collect email addresses from websites, discussion groups, etc.
These addresses are typically resold or shared, so if a user clicks on a link
within this e-mail confirmation to the program that the e-mail address is valid
and therefore become a potential victim of spam traffic. Sometimes the link
within the email are also a way to perpetrate an attack of intrusive computer
or telematic scams;
Do not respond to e-mail spam - answer means confirming to
the spammer that the email address exists and is active;
Do not follow the removal instructions from the list or
unsubscribe in the case of e-mail spam - in this case, as in the above, the
only result is to confirm to the spammer that the email address exists and is
active;
Avoid register their e-mail lists in spam that are on the
internet - often behind these lists there are spammers that in this way we
procure addresses of active e-mail;
Disable the automatic downloading of graphics in HTML email
- many spammers send e-mail in HTML format with links to images or graphic
parts that reside on a web server spammer. When the mail client displays the
graphics contained in the message, the web server where the image resides is
aware that e-mail has been opened and then the spammer know that that address
exists and is active. Disabling the download of e-mail in HTML and viewing the
emails in "only text on €? resolves this problem;
