What is spam email? Ways to stay safe from harmful spam
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"Spam" is a very popular word in the world of email. However, many people do not have a clear idea about spam emails. Let's find out what spam emails are, the types of spam emails, why spam emails come in, details about ways to stay safe from harmful spam.
What is spam email?
Spam email is a form of junk email that is undesirable by the recipient. Basically these emails contain advertisements, which are sent without the permission of the recipient. Most spam emails are triggered by purchased email lists, fake contests, email harvesting programs, and so on.
Types of spam emails
There may be different types of spam emails. Fraudsters use different types of camouflage for different types of spam emails. The most commonly seen spam emails are:
Fake Invoice Scam: An attempt is made to trap the recipient by sending a fake transaction bill.
Email Account Upgrade Scam: Mail is sent with malicious phishing links informing you to change any important settings of the email account.
Advance-fee scam: Advance fee is charged for sending lottery winning money
Google Docs Scam: Account hijacked using fake link to request edit of a document
Unusual Activity Scam: The account is accessed by reporting Unusual Activity.
There are many more types of spam. Many times good emails are also deposited in the spam box due to the error of the email spam filter. So you have to use your intellect to recognize spam emails.
There are several ways in which your email address can be accessed by a fraudster. After receiving the email address, the fraudster sends mail to your email address. The ways in which fraudsters can collect email addresses are discussed below.
During a data leak, your email address is leaked and the email address is leaked. Even large organizations like Adobe and LinkedIn suffer from these problems. In this case, more than one personal information including name, password, email address may be leaked. Since these data leaks contain numerous active emails, the main target of spammers is the emails received through these data leaks.
Email addresses can also be leaked from the contact list. If someone knows your friend's email address and password, it is not difficult to get your email address from the contact list.
Popular email services like Gmail and Yahoo have active users in almost all common usernames. As a result, anyone can get your email using a random email generator.
We provide some personal information, including email, when opening an account on various companies' websites or to receive newsletters. Now, if any of these organizations sell their mailing lists to anyone unscrupulously, they may fall prey to unwanted spam emails.
What kind of harm can spam email do?
Spam emails are usually annoying. These include unsolicited advertisements. In addition, any spam email can be the reason for hacking your online account. Your online bank account, credit card information can be hacked by clicking on harmful links in spam emails.
Also, many spam emails may say that your Facebook account has been locked. Your active Facebook account can be hacked if you go to the trap given in the spam email for recovery or recovery of Facebook account.
But yes, as I said before, sometimes even a couple of good emails go to the spam email or junk email box. So all the time you will consciously decide which is right and which is false. If necessary, you can post asking for help in our QnA Zone.
Again, the virus or malware can be downloaded to your computer or phone from the download link in the spam email. So be careful when clicking on links in unfamiliar emails.
Ways to stay safe from harmful spam
If you have an email account, you have received at least one spam email. We all receive spam mails from various organizations, including emails, messages from unsigned services or discussions about various unimaginable free offers.
Spam emails are a nuisance. It can even harm you, as most of the time spammers spread various exploits via email.
However, with a few simple steps, you can make sure that your email inbox is not filled with these unbearable emails. It may not be possible to block these emails permanently using these methods, but it is possible to significantly reduce the amount of spam.
In this post we will learn about some effective ways to stop spam email. Let's take a look at some of the ways to block spam email.
Keep email address secret
Your email address is nothing but a fraction of your personal information. So refrain from giving it everywhere. Keep your email address as confidential as possible. In particular, do not share your email address in any public forum or message board, as this will damage the privacy of the email address.
Use separate emails
Some websites ask for an email address to provide their one-time service. If you do not need to login to these sites later, you can use a temporary email service. Temporary email can also be used to consider the acceptability of any suspicious email based service. However, keep in mind that these temporary email addresses are one-time. This means that after a few hours, you will no longer be able to see the mail that came to this email address. So if you use these to get the services of important sites then you will get in trouble.
Using email filters
No matter which email service you use, the email filter feature is a must have. Using the email client you are using, you can train the email filter through the incoming email in your inbox. For example, if a fake / annoying / harmful email arrives in an inbox is reported as spam, the spam filter may follow the same pattern and send the same type of email to spam. Also, if ordinary emails are submitted to spam, you can still train the spam filter by removing the emails from the spam.
Blocking spam email sender
Spammers send spam emails in a variety of ways. For this reason, spam emails can come even after unsubscribing from the email address from which the spam emails are being sent. However, if you receive repeated spam emails from the same email address, blocking that address may be a good decision.
Do not reply to spam emails
Many people may think of replying to spam emails out of anger or resentment. But don't forget to do this. Replying to spam emails can cause more new problems. When the spammer finds out that your email is active after receiving a reply, he will start sending more spam emails.
Do not click on any links in unfamiliar emails
By no means click on link on the e-mails. It may show various tempting offers or good products at low prices. Many times the Unsubscribe option also has harmful links added. So don't forget to click on any link in the spam email.
We hope you find these tips useful. Share your experience regarding spam email in the comments below!
