5 tips to avoid spam mails

These days, the rate at which cybercriminals and advertisers flood our inbox with spam mails can be very annoying.

But some tips can be used to protect one’s email address in order to reduce the risk of getting spammed.

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• Spammers in most cases need to know your email address before they can spam you. So keep your email address to yourself as much as possible and use it only for work and business purposes.
• Never click on links in a spam email. In some cases clicking will result in you confirming to the spammer that the email address is valid and the user is likely to click on links thus making you a prime target for more spam and phishing attacks.
• Always review the privacy terms on sites before registering. You need to know that whoever you are signing up with will not give away your email address to third parties who might actually end up selling your email address for money.
• Do not open attachments in spam. You could get infected with Trojans that will send your email contacts to a spammer as well as entrap you in a spammer distribution chain ( your computer might be the one that the spammer uses to send pam emails).
• Do not use the unsubscribe links in spam email. In some cases, that will actually confirm to the spammer that email address is valid.