What Spammers Don’t Want You To Know!
Spam e-mails are not only annoying, irritating and time consuming, but they’re also becoming more dangerous for individuals and businesses.. Millions of computer users and restaruant owners are getting infected, spoofed, and tricked by spam e-mails every year, forcing them to pay heavy fees for cleaning and restoring their computer POS systems back to normal.
There are the 3 most common dangers that all computer users must be aware of:
1. An increase in hijacked and spoofed e-mail addresses. Spammers have acquired a new technology that effortlessly allows them to fool you by making it appear as though their spam e-mails are coming from YOUR computer. This can cause your connection to the internet be be temporarily terminated or put on hold by your service provider – all without your knowledge. That is why good spam blocking software will not only block inbound spam from your inbox, but also unauthorized outbound spam from your serves.
2. Virus infected spam e-mails. Accidentally or intentionally opening an e-mail from an unknown sender can cause you many of problems. Most of these unknown senders are the spammers who merrily speard their virus-infected e-mails and waits for the unlucky person to open it and/or download its content. This can cause your computer to slow down, identity theft, loose data, endless popping of adult sites or even crashes the system! What’s worst is that the personal information collected from your PC can be uploaded to the internet without your knowledge and use it to comit crime.
3. Phishing spam. Also called phishing scam. The attempt to collect personal information of an individual either to steal money from their bacnk accounts or use the money to go online shopping without the owners knowledge. A phishing spam e-mail sends some kind of fraudulent notification or warning to an individual asking for his or her online bank account, social security numbers, passwords, and credit card information. To be able to make someone believe that their spam e-mail is from a trusted website, phishing sites mimics the exact same look of the authentic website..
Here’s what you can do to pervent this:
First and foremost, install a sam blocking software as this will be your first line of defense, and make sure it’s a good one.
Many retail business owner over look into this, so their restaruant POS system takes serious damages.
Next, you want to make sure you don’t get on a spammers list in the first place. Once you’re on a spammer’s list, it’s impossible to get off; and changing your e-mail address can be a major inconvenience especially if you rely on it to stay in touch with important business and personal contacts.
Here’s a couple of ways you can do to reduce the chances of your e-mail address getting on a spammer’s list:
1. Use a disposable e-mail address.
Using a free e-mail address like with Gmail or Yahoo to reduce the chance of ending up on a spammer’s list. Use this when subscribing or shopping online to avoid your main e-mail address from ending up on their broadcast list.
2. Pay attention to check boxes that automatically opt you in.
Make sure you don’t check on the box that says “Yes! I want to receive offers from third party companies.” when shopping online. Chances are, your e-mail address can (and will) be sold to every online advertiser.
3. Don’t post your main e-mail address on your web site, web forums, or newsgroups.
Spammers have special programs that can collect e-mail addresses from web sites without your permission. If you want to post an e-mail address on your home page, use “info@” and have all replies forwarded to a folder in your in-box that won’t interfere with your main address.
4. Refrain yourself from replying on obvious spam e-mails.
Doing so, signals the spammer that your e-mail address is active, and more spam will follow.
The only time it is safe to click on the opt-out link or reply to the e-mail is when it is sent by a company you know or do business with (for example, a company that you purchase from or a newsletter you subscribed to).
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