You can really get sick of all those advertisements that flood your inbox at times. Aside from the product advertisement, you sometimes receive get-rich-instantly deals. These unsolicited emails that reached your inbox are called spams.
How spammers get your email address
If you wonder how spam senders access your email address, there are actually a lot of possible explanations. One, you unwittingly give it yourself. If you subscribe to online newsletters, purchase a product online, or join forums, you will be required to hand over your email address. Well, you are lucky if the online stores and discussion groups have a strict privacy policy, but if not, you will find your mail box flooding with annoying spams. Another possibility is that someone whom you trusted with your email address gives it to someone else. Your friends, for instance, can give away your email address without intending to. If they send you an e-card, this means they have handed over your email address to an e-card company.
How to prevent getting spams
It is very important to protect the privacy of your email address to avoid receiving unsolicited mails. One way to do it is to give your email address to those who are trustworthy enough not to sell your email address. If you want to subscribe for a certain product and you have to hand over your email address, make sure that the company has a privacy policy regarding collected addresses. It is also important that you enable the spam filter feature of your email account to avoid receiving more unsolicited emails.