| Has anyone of you noticed that in the past few | | | | you did not request and did not give permission to |
| months, that email spammers are on the loose? | | | | that sender, that is considered spam. Someone sends |
| Before I go further, let's take a look at what email | | | | you an email with the ONE intention and that is to sell |
| SPAM is. | | | | you their service or product. |
| In Wikipedia it is defined as this, "Spam is the abuse | | | | I have an email address that gets about 20-40 spam |
| of electronic messaging systems to send unsolicited | | | | emails per day that go directly into my JUNK mail |
| bulk messages indiscriminately. While the most widely | | | | box. As soon as I go there, I make sure that they |
| recognized form of spam is e-mail spam, the term is | | | | are really spam because when people who are on my |
| applied to similar abuses in other media: instant | | | | email list send me an email with a question, I want to |
| messaging spam, Usenet newsgroup spam, Web | | | | reply back to them. It is rare that I get these kind of |
| search engine spam, spam in blogs, wiki spam, Online | | | | messages that go into my JUNK mail box. What ever |
| classified ads spam, mobile phone messaging spam, | | | | is SPAM, I delete it right away. |
| Internet forum spam, junk fax transmissions, and file | | | | And you know what's weird? When you hit the reply |
| sharing network spam." | | | | button and ask them to stop emailing you, your |
| Spam for me is also when you are sitting at home | | | | message bounces back to you. That email address |
| after a long day and the phone starts to ring. You | | | | that sent you that email does not exist. How |
| answer it because you think that it is a friend or a | | | | frustrating is that? |
| family member who wants to say hi and chat but as | | | | The one thing that is weird is that I opened a new |
| soon as you pick up the phone, telemarketers pitch | | | | email account with to see if the spammers would get |
| you their products. So you hang up on them and 2 | | | | me there too and 2 days after opening that new |
| hours later, another telemarketer calls you and | | | | email account, some of them did. They sent spam |
| bothers you. I think that telemarketers are like email | | | | there too. I have no idea how they do that. I just |
| spammers. They have 3 things in common. | | | | opened that account for the sake of seeing if they |
| 1. They contact you without your permission. | | | | would come there too. |
| 2. They try to sell you their product that you don't | | | | If you are getting spam emails from people that you |
| really need. | | | | don't know of, there is not much we can do about it |
| 3. They annoy the heck out of you over and over | | | | and just delete their emails and move on. Not much |
| again. | | | | we can do about it. |
| So basically, when someone sends you an email that | | | | |