Spam emails can cause your email account to be flooded with useless and even potentially harmful messages. These spam emails can infiltrate your computer and give it viruses, malicious programs, or spyware. There are various ways by which you can lessen the number of spam emails you receive at your email account.
* Use a different email when registering for various websites online. Do you love joining various social networking sites? These sites will most likely ask you for your email address. A good thing to do would be to create a different email account and use this account when signing up for various sites or for entering promotions. Even though websites usually state that they guarantee your email is safe, spammers can still find ways to get emails from various sites. Using a different email for various sites than the one you use for important correspondence lessens your chances of getting spam emails at your official email account. You can even send your registration emails to your official email account so you won’t have to keep checking two accounts.
* Use your email account’s spam filter. When you see spam emails in your inbox, mark them as spam. By doing this, your email will be able to recognize similar messages as spam.
* Don’t click on unsubscribe links. Although spam emails promise to take you off their mailing list when you click the unsubscribe link, this isn’t always true. In fact, when you click the link, spammers will just send their mail to you via a different email account because all you did was verify that your email account is indeed active and that you are opening and reading emails.