A Kick-ass Scheme On Fighting Junk E-mail.
Here are some rules which solely are less effective but in total sum up all of my experiences which I made in the last couple of years. And all of this rules apply to every Internet user, from occasional to power user.
Rule 1
Never publish your proper address online. Never ever. Post your address in Myspace, Facebook or your own website and you'll be flooded with spam within hours.
Whenever possible, try to hide or obfuscate your address with java script oder generate a picture out of your address. Encrypting it like namedomaincom is not enough.
Rule 2
Forget about filters and tools. Don't trust your ISP's junk e-mail filters.
From complicated regular expression filters and black listing of known bad mail server, to semi intelligent Bayes filtering, none of them keeps its promises. They are always behind the current fashion in spamming.
The problems with filtering are not the junk e-mail mails that are not detected but the good mails which are accidentally hold back or worse erased.
Rule 3
Use throwaway addresses that can be deleted if they begin to attract spam messages. Try finding services which let's you create those addresses by a finger tip. Every of this fake addresses is redirected to your main address and you can even reply to them, while your real address is always obfuscated.
This is by far the best way to communicate with machines, newsletters, shopping sites, etc.
And when you get spammed? No problem, just erase the targeted address and that's it.
Rule 4
Never reply to junk e-mail UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WHATSOEVER, just erase it. Never confirm that you read and even answer such dirt.
Rule 5
Never even open junk e-mail mails. They might infect you with a computer virus or confirm your address automatically in the background. Try to delete the suspicious message right on the mail server.
Rule 6
Never click on the links in spam messages, including unsubscribe links. This will only lead to more spam. Also it is best to not open mails from unknown senders in HTML modus.
Rule 7
Never buy anything from a company that spams. Don't pay those guys for molesting you. Don't visit their sites or ask for more information.
Rule 8
Use multiple email addresses for different purposes. This assists you to identify different authors and senders, and grants you filter more efficiently.
Rule 9
Use products where unknown human senders have to authenticate themselves before their mails go from quarantine to your inbox.
Rule 10
Use mechanically generated throwaway addresses for writing to machines (e.g. newsletters, shops, web2.0)
Rule 11
Control if your address is visible to spammers by typing it into a web search engine.
Rule 12
Try using a more complex e-mail address, that is less likely to catch spam than one that can be easily created with a dictionary-attack. Chose a entirely randomly generated addresses.
Rule 13
Stop using burned addresses. You will never be cleaned from a spammer's list.
Rule 14
Never uncover your login information to anyone. Not to your wife, not to your best friend and of course not to your co worker.
Rule 15
Always protect yourself the best way possible. New windows updates, an up to date virus protection and a running firewall are a total must.
Rule 16
Don't use Microsoft's Internet Explorer, MS Outlook and Outlook Express. They are buggy and constantly an attacker's first potential aim.
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