How to Get Rid of Email SPAM

Junk email, better known as spam, is the number one annoyance you may get through your email account. Oftentimes, even if your email provider has anti-spam measures in place, a lot of it still makes it into your mailbox.

You end up spending minutes everyday just figuring out which among the messages you received are real and which of them deserve junking.

There is no single way to stop spam, nor is any email account bullet-proof from it. Spammers will always be there, and itll just be a matter of time before a new email account gets bombarded with it. The most effective way to

get rid of spam is to make spammers tasks in obtaining your email address difficult. Here is how to effectively get rid of spam, or at least reduce the chances of getting it.

Do you ever wonder how spam gets into your mailbox? Well, a lot of spammers use "bruteforce" or send a huge volume of their spam to random email addresses. Most of these spammers send mail using lists of accounts

gathered from the Internet. The majority of the spam you get come from the websites where you use your email address as your means of identity. These may include sites or services that youve previously visited or signed

up for. You may also have posted your email address on blogs and forums.

Make it Difficult

To make your email address hard to find, you must avoid posting your email on free-to-access websites. If you really need to post your address though, disguise it. For example, if your email is "johnsmith@smith.com", write it

out as "john smith [at] smith [dot] com". A person who reads this disguised version will still be able to understand it, but automatic programs that spammers use to harvest emails will not be able to detect it.

Dupe it

Most services on the Internet, especially free ones, require that you provide an email address as a means of identification or contact line to inform you about certain matters. You cant tell if that website sells their email list to

spammers or not, despite claims of having secure "privacy policies" and the sort, so it is better to use a "disposable" email address.

It is common to have more than one email address today, so simply make an extra one and use it when signing up for services. Avoid using your work or personal email address. Create a new email account using free email

providers like Gmail, Yahoo!, or Hotmail. When have a separate account, if ever it gets bombarded with spam, it is a different account, and you wont get annoyed deleting it from your main email. When you feel you dont need

it anymore, you can either leave it alone or deactivate it. You dont even need to bother checking this email account for new messages, since you only provide the address to websites and forums as a log-in, and not to your

friends or work contacts.

Mind the Fine Print and Check Boxes

To further minimize spam in your email, make sure to read the fine print. Oftentimes, you unknowingly consent to spam being sent to you because you didnt read the policy of the services you sign up for. You will know when

there is a possibility you will be receiving spam if you read something about third-parties being provided with your personal information (such as email address) to offer you promos or newsletters. If you do read anything of

this nature, think twice. You can either continue and sign up for the service or search the net for a different site that provides the same service. (If you do sign up, you may want to use your disposable address.)