What is Spam Email?
Monday, November 10, 2008 0:39Spam or junk mail that spread through e-mail is very disturbing for most people. When they check your inbox or inbox e-mail, there are hundreds of spam e-mail sent by persons unknown in the private e-mail you. Some service providers for free e-mail like Yahoo and Google even have anti-spam systems that sophisticated, but still there are many e-mail spam or junk mail that spread by spammers who still can you find in the electronic mailbox of your . What should be done to overcome the entry of e-mails that are not invited and this is disturbing?
Spam or Junk Mail
Not all e-mail spam or junk mail is not really useful. Sometimes a few e-mails from the business relationship also entered into a spam or junk folder in your electronic mailbox. Anti-spam systems are more likely to weighting and assessment of all e-mails coming. If it contains words commonly found in an e-mail spam, the system will automatically enter and classify e-mail in spam folder or junk mail. There are various ways of weighting and assessment carried out by anti-spam system, either in an e-mail client like Outlook and Thunderbird, as well as on webmail such as Yahoo Mail, Gmail, Hotmail, and other similar webmail.
E-mail anything that can be classified as spam or junk mail? Most e-mails classified as spam or junk mail is usually in the form of promotion, advertising, and even fraud. Here are some examples of categories of spam e-mail:
Pyramid System
If you receive an e-mail containing an invitation to participate in a system with a pyramid model, the e-mail can be classified as spam. Usually you will be offered to participate in their pyramid system with small capital and lure diiming hope that you will earn millions of dollars in a short time. Usually you will be asked to invite your friends or contacts to join the bid committee or for the results.
Another variation of the e-mails of this type is a chain e-mails to spread this invitation by the lure of prizes. Generally e-mails of this type always contains the following sentence: “Please send this e-mail to 10 friends, then you will soon get a gift of a brand new notebook A”. This activity is illegal and fraud.
Health and Diet
Some e-mail offering a diet or health products that look great. E-mail this post quite a lot, especially from abroad. Suppose you have a supply of pills or drugs that can make you slim without the need to exercise and certain diets. Even in the e-mail also inserted some user testimonials that this drug benefit.
Some sentences are frequently used trap in the e-mail such as: “the latest scientific breakthrough,” “miraculous cure”, “secret formula” or even “traditional medicine”. Depending on the sender, may be in English or Indonesian. In fact, most products in this special form of fraud, because it has no effect as advertised.
Business Bids
E-mail of this type usually offer business cooperation with big profits, but only with capital and little risk. The most common version is an investment in a bank involves dark. Investors were lured with the assurance that people who handle the money they have connections to the officials and have information from people inside. Therefore, e-mail like this often includes the name of a famous person as their modus operandi.
Sweepstakes or Prize Winner
You receive an e-mail that says that you are the winner of a special tour package or lottery winners. Or some other variation to say that you are chosen as a special person to a prize. This also is a deception to lure a sense of emotion a person who was so excited because winning a valuable prize. Remember, that e-mail like this is not accepted by your own. E-mail the same ads are also sent to millions of others to deceive them that they are the only or the selected winner.
Inherited
You got an e-mail that someone who has died and left a large sum of money. Even millions of dollars. E-mail like this is also a fraud. Generally e-mail like this come from African countries, but not close the possibility of other countries. Usually such e-mail is often used to get your financial information is private and can be misused in the future by the swindler.
Phishing
Phishing means fool. E-mail like this really catchy. For example, you’ll be sent an e-mail from the bank explaining that you should improve your personal data in the bank’s website. Then you’re given a link or links to websites “official” bank. Fake website pages that looked exactly like the official site so that you will be very easy to get caught if not careful. If you click that link, you begin to get stuck. If you login or fill out personal data on the site, then you really have trapped and deceived. If you receive an e-mail like that, ignore, or contact the bank directly.
Avoiding Spam
Because the number of e-mail spam or junk mail that very much and it is usually just a promotion, advertising to interference and fraud, then the necessary preventive measures to prevent such an e-mail that floods your electronic mailbox. Often these e-mails occasionally go into the Inbox folder for the anti-spam system of recognizing the e-mail. What steps should be done to avoid e-mail spam or junk mail?
Ignore e-mail Spam
The easiest step is to ignore e-mails as described in the previous explanation, or from strangers. If you answer or reply to e-mail, then the next you’ll be deluged with offers and types of fraud through other e-mail. Usually if you reply to or answer, then e-mail messages are considered as active so that the propagator of spam will be active again sent an e-mail.
Avoid Forward
Avoid forwarding or forward e-mail haphazardly. If you receive an e-mail that interesting or funny, and wanted to pass on to your friends, just enter the name of your friends in the BCC. Thus, e-mail your friends will be protected from the spread spam or spammers. Delete also lists the e-mail name that appears in the contents of the e-mail before you forward an e-mail. In addition, the habit often e-mail forward that can make the data traffic growing heavier.
Be careful in Various Web Sites
Be careful when registering your e-mail to a web site that is not known reputation. Avoid fill out a form requesting personal information and e-mail you if derived from an e-mail or web sites that you do not recognize. Do not click on links in e-mail that will randomly take you to a phishing site so you can really get caught and deceived.
Create e-mail Remain Secret
Do not include e-mail address in your blog or website, if you do not want to be disturbed by the spread spam or spammers. Usually spammers have automated systems to send spam e-mail to the address of every e-mail that found in the blog page or website. However, if you aim to sell products or do business on the Internet, use e-mail different special e-mail with your personal.
Make Some E-mail Address
Another step is to create multiple e-mail address. One e-mail address private, one e-mail address for the mailing list and sign up at various sites (e-mail that will accommodate a lot of spam), and another e-mail address for the business.
System Use
You can use either the system software and hardware to avoid the e-mail spam. This system can remove the e-mails are suspected of being spam.
Send e-mail is one of the easiest ways to communicate with others in the current era of technology. However, keep the e-mail carefully. Do not until you become a victim of fraud because the crime is more rampant in the online world.

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October 16th, 2009 at 12:57 PM
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October 17th, 2009 at 10:45 AM
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