Whats the best way to stop junk emails?

Question

Recently, I have been receiving a lot of junk emails in my hotmail account. Some automatically go into my junk mail folder,but most of them dont and I was just wonderingif there's anyway to stop junk emails being sent to me or if theres anyway to prevent them coming into my mail?

Answer 1

Once your email address is on a spammers list it is almost impossible to get off. Right now, your e-mail address (along with millions of others) is on a CD being sold from the back rooms of software shops from Bangladesh to Botswanna and from Norway to the Netherlands.



However there are several things that you can do to prevent even more spam (junk mail).



1. Start by removing your e-mail address from your Yahoo profile,if it is on it. The spam-industry has automated programs (bots) that are continusously crawling the web looking for the "@" symbol which is a sure sign the the word before it and the domain name after it is an autual e-mail address! These addresses are then "harvested" and sold to spammers.



2. Use a longer address. The spam industry uses programs that try sending e-mail to all known domain names. Example: a program might start trying to send out e-mails to everyone starting with [e-mail] and continue down to [e-mail]. Using a longer e-mail address will make this harder to do.



3. Never click the "Unsubscribe Link" in any spam e-mail. This will only confirm to the spammers that your e-mail address is indeed real and that you are reading their garbage. In fact, do not even open any e-mail from anybody you don't know or trust. Many spams are not only annoying but contain viruses of other malware. Just delete 'em without opening 'em!.

You can however click that "Unsubscribe Me" button from businesses that are well known and that you trust. Walmart... yes. Someone selling Viagra...no.



4. Open up a second e-mail account. Whenever, a website requires you to register using your e mail address, use this secondary address. There are many unscrupulous websites that will sell you address to others or bombard you with spam themselves.



5. Download a free copy of SiteAdvisor. SiteAdvisor will alert you when you search (Google, Yahoo, MSN, search only) of websites that are known to send out spam. This can help you avoid registering with any sites that are known to spam people.

http://www.siteadvisor.com/



Treat your e-mail address just like you would your telephone number or home address....only give it out to those that you absolutely trust!

Answer 2

The best way seems to be to create a new email address and share it much less. I was doing fine with my gmail address until I gave it to one software company for a freebie. Even though I now have about 60 filters created to block spam, it is still coming through.



I now use www.mailinator.com to receive some emails from untrusted sources. I have to pick up any email quickly, as it is deleted in a few hours. I am VERY happy with mailinator, which is free.

Answer 3

The main thing is u post ur email on a bog or a website where ultimately it goes on the Junk side,so if u lyk to subscribe to various offers or other emails notificating u,write it in such a way so that the computer language doesn't get it.But people can understand it.



e.g- yourname at(dn't use@) hotmail.com



in this way u can be saved from junk mails.

Answer 4

Depending on what e-mail you have, you usually have a tab that you can click to report as spam! That way they can't keep sending you the same junk.

Answer 5

Put your account on maximum junk filter.

I have 2 hotmail accounts ... one is on low filter , the other is on max junk filter and all that gets through are people on my contact list.

Answer 6

be careful which sites you visit. some contain links which generate spam emails to your inbox.



you should have a spam filter on your email program, this should get rid of them.

Answer 7

Change your email, or you can go onto each individual site and request "no emails."

Answer 8

mark them as spam eventually they will all go away