How to Prevent Spam Emails

Preventing Spam in your Email Inbox

How many email messages do you receive daily? And how many of these messages are spam? You may spend precious hours deleting and blocking spam from your inbox every day. Fighting spam is a never-ending battle and the best battle tactic is to prevent spam from reaching your inbox in the first place.

Never reply to spam

Do not even click on the link to remove your name from their lists. This informs them that your email address is valid and you will only end up on more spam lists.

Download Free Scan: PC Health Advisor optimizes, cleans and repairs your computer.

Clean Registry, Optimize Speed and Performance
Clean-up junk files
Improve PC Security
Monitor Active Processes for threats
Reclaim loads of memory from duplicate files

(Windows® 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP compatibility with 32-bit and 64-bit Operating System)

Do not click on links provided in the email

This is another way to let them know that it is a legitimate email address and will only encourage them to send you more spam.

Be careful when filling out online forms

Read the entire form before clicking ‘Submit’. Doing so will help ensure that your email address will not be sold to other websites. When left at their default values, the check boxes on these forms authorize spam.

Keep more than one email address

It is free to sign up for an email account through Yahoo! or Hotmail. Set up a private account for emailing friends and family. Use a separate account for all other online activities to help prevent spam from arriving in your private inbox.

Use the BCC field when sending multiple copies of an email

This will prevent recipients from accessing other recipients’ email addresses. Ask your friends to do the same when emailing you.

Use a unique email address

An email address that is easy to guess is guaranteed a lot more spam than a unique address will receive. Also, never share your email address with anyone you do not trust.

These tips will help to prevent spam in the first place. Additionally, there are ways for preventing spam once you have received it, as well as anti-spam software that can be installed on your computer. The bottom line is to be careful who you give your email address to and, if you do receive spam, do not open it or reply to it.

Paretologic PC Health Advisor

This recommended Windows tune-up tool helps ensure your PC is running fast and error-free ALWAYS!