4 Zero cost Solutions to Unsolicited Commercial Email (uce, spam)
Spam is a daily nuisance for all of us. It doesn’t matter whether you’re at work or unemployed. It doesn’t matter if you’re a Company owner of a multinational or if you’re a work at home parent - spam affects us all.
There are dozens of progams available for combatting unsolicited commercial email (uce, spam). The major problem is that most of these programs are expensive.
What I’m going to do is give you 4 assorted ways of combating unsolicited commercial email (uce, spam) - all free.
1. Don’t give out your personal email address.
This is stating the obvious but it’s the supreme big mistake people make. Do not use your personal email address for sign up forms, competitions, surveys or any other nonsense that may result in you being spammed. It’s much easier to prevent unsolicited commercial email (uce, spam), by never giving out your personal email address, than it is to cure the situation once you’re on 100’s of junk email lists.
2. Use a free email account
Set yourself up with a Hotmail, Yahoo or any other free email account and use it whereas a spam holder account i.e. use it on all those popups or sign up forms that you *suspect* may try to grab your email address inorder to send you unsolicited commercial email. You can then periodically assess your free email account for both legitimate and spam email and delete the rubbish you don’t want. This single step can save you lots unsolicited commercial email related headaches.
3. Use a free unsolicited commercial email (uce, spam) filter.
Unfortunately even when you follow all the correct steps you can still wind up getting junk email. There’s only solution at that point - install a spam filter on your PC. The best free unsolicited commercial email (uce, spam) filter I’ve come across so far is Spamihilator. An excellent application that won’t cost you a penny.
4. Newsgroups and forums
Spammers love newsgroups and forums. They especially love the way people post their personal email addresses there. It doesn’t matter if it’s a paid, anonymous or free forum spammers have their harvester programs hunting for email addresses every minute of every day.
If you have to post your email address then use the following format:
username AT domain.com.
If that doesn’t make sense then what I mean is instead of posting whereas test@unsolicited commercial email (uce, spam)-site.com you’d post whereas test AT spam-site.com.
Spammers can harvest 35,000 email addresses per hour from newsgroups and forums!!
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