How To Deal With Junk Emails And Stop Junk Emails - Spam

Spam or junk emails are simply unexpected and unwanted emails. A Spammer is someone or a company who sends junk email to people usually for financial gain. You will see unexpected emails in your mailbox like "making $500 a day is easy" or "Triple your account balance". It's email that you didn't signup up for or agree to receive.

For example one day I received an email with the subject: "Free trial bottle of enlargement male supplement". The sender thinks I may need some male supplement to enhance my personal life, I don't think so:-) I did not expect this email, I'm currently not interested in male supplements so for now I will treat this as spam/junk email.

How Do You Get Spam There are many ways you could potentially invite spam into your email. During your web browsing activities, when you sign up to various websites, post comments, display your email address on websites or give out your email address. There are intelligent automated programs out there that scan the internet and capture email addresses.

Also a very common way is when you sign up to something and you are asked if you want to "opt out" or "opt in" to stuff from "our partners" or "carefully selected" third parties. If you opt in, some of them basically pass on your details to those companies. Then you start receiving emails from those companies about their products.

How To Block Spam To get rid of spam emails here are some of the things you can do: Open up a spam email and scroll to the end of the email and look for an unsubscribe link to unsubscribe.

If there isn't an "unsubscribe" link, simply copy the email address of the sender and add it to your "blocked" email address list within your email application.

You can reply back and request not to send you emails but most of the spam emails are sent out using automated systems which do not respond to replies. Use a temporary disposable email. When you want something from a website but in order to get it they want you to sign up, instead of using your email address you can use a temporary disposable email address from sites like GuerillaMail and Mailinator. They give you a random email address that lasts for few minutes to hours. You can check inbox for the email directly from the their website. Really useful when you don't want to signup to things but just want to download a one off PDF, software or ebook etc.

On many popular email applications such as Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo they are already have spam/junk email filters in place to minimize these types of emails you receive. For instance google mail or gmail has a default Spam folder which puts emails that appear to be spam in to the Spam folder

Not Receiving Emails From Someone Or Company That You Were Expecting? Unfortunately at times, genuine emails could end up in your junk/spam folder. So if you are waiting for an email and the sender has sent it, try checking your junk/spam email folder to see if its in there. If its ended up in here, to prevent this in future you can "whitelist" or add the email address of the sender to your "safe" list within your email address. In gmail and other email programs there is a link within the suspected spam email to mark it as safe.

In gmail for instance you can open the email and click on the "x" next to the "Spam" button and it will mark it as not spam so all future emails from that address will be going in to the inbox. Even if I'm not expecting an email from somebody I still check my spam folder from time to time to see if there are any important emails in there.

When it comes to spam, even the greatest and most expensive spam filters cannot block 100% of spam because its simply too difficult to do so, therefore we just have to tackle with them using our own initiative together with the anti-spam features available in email applications.