☎ How to protect yourself from spam emails

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Every day we are annoyed by emails offering us loans, credit cards, various medical services and health products.

All of these unsolicited emails are called spam.

Now, cybercriminals also send spam emails for phishing purposes, that is, they send phishing emails through these spam-related messages, and if you fall into the trap of phishing mail, you may face various consequences, such as your personal information may be stolen, financial information may also be stolen, and this may lead to identity theft.

You can stop these unsolicited emails by taking various precautions into account.

Therefore, to stay safe and avoid misery in your cyber life, follow our tips.

Where and why do we get so many spam emails?​

1. We subscribe to various newsletters found on the Internet, where we are asked to provide our email address in order to keep in touch with them and activate the subscription.

2. We provide our email IDs for various surveys. Later, they use our email address to send us spam emails.

3. Various websites where we create accounts to receive their services.

4. Various Internet marketers have a huge number of email addresses. They send out spam messages to market their businesses, products, and services.

Why we should avoid spam emails​


1. First of all, spam messages are really frustrating, and deleting a topic also takes a long time. Therefore, to avoid anger and save time, you should avoid spam emails in your Inbox.

2. Secondly, you don't know the internal intentions of spammers, they can send you malicious emails to trick you into uploading malicious data to your system, and they can try to steal your personal information by phishing your email. Therefore, in this case, precautions and safety measures are necessary.

Here are some tips on how to avoid spam coming to your Inbox​


1. Try not to enter your primary email addresses everywhere – don't use your primary emails everywhere you need to subscribe to each newsletter.

You can start using an additional email address for less important work or newsletters.

If possible, use a one-time email address.

You will find many disposable electronic mailboxes online for free.

https://temp-mail.org/en/ and https://www.tempmailaddress.com/ provide their services free of charge.

To avoid spam emails in your Inbox, these sites are very useful for one-time email addresses.

2. Never subscribe to the newsletter of untrusted websites – Never, ever, ever subscribe to newsletters that belong to untrusted websites.

First find out about their services, do they send any stupid marketing emails or not?

3. Never open emails from an untrusted person – if you find an email from a stranger, don't trust them, don't open it, mark it as spam.

4. Do not reply to spam – after opening an email, if you suspect that it is spam, do not reply to this email. Just mark this email as spam.

Never click on links or download attachments, your system may be compromised by malicious data, or links may redirect you to a phishing website.

5. Try to mark spam messages as spam, never delete them.

Never delete spam messages that arrive in your mailbox, but mark them as spam instead.

This way, your email client will know which emails are spam.

Also, go to the spam folder of your email and check if the original email is mistakenly marked as spam.

If your email client has mistakenly marked any genuine email as spam, mark it as "this is not spam”.

This way, your email client is aware of its mistakes and will never make a genuine email spam.

6. Use a spam filter-spam filters can help you by blocking spam messages coming to your mailbox.

7. Cancel your subscription if you don't need these types of emails.

If you want to reduce your stress, try canceling your subscription to newsletters that you don't need.

Basically, you'll get an unsubscribe link at the bottom of the page.

When you click on these links, you will be redirected to a page where you will be asked to confirm your request, and they will unsubscribe you.

But there's a catch.

Some bad guys send unsubscribe links to see if your email address is active or not?

When you click on the unsubscribe links, they get confirmation that your email is active and send you more spam.

8. Do not share your email address with unknown people.

To avoid spam from your Inbox, never share or share an email address with someone you don't know or trust.
 
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