Internet spam is here to stay, theres just no way around it in the world we live in right now and theres very little we can do to stop it, but there are ways to minimize the effect it has on our daily lives. Heres just a couple of tips to control the way that you receive and send emails that will help you in your efforts to stop this horrible little thing ruining your life.
When you have to give out an email address, use one that you dont use for your personal business. This may mean you having to set up another email address, but at the same time this will also ensure that the person that you give your email address to only has your second address, and so any spam sent to you will go to the one you set up for that purpose only, so you should not become a recipient of internet spam except at that address.
Hold back on the number of newsletters and free offer lists you join, simply because these entities are in business to make money, and an easy way to make money is to sell something you already have such as an email list. If youre on a sold email list, its virtually guaranteed that youll soon start getting a plateful of internet spam raining on your parade, so be aware of what you join, and why.
Dont give your email address out to people you dont know or trust. Again, similar to the last point, not everyone is for real, and some people do make a lot of money collecting email addresses and selling them. Craigs List is notorious for this, when people respond to ads with a cheap piece of equipment for sale, you can usually bet that its not really for sale, its simply been used to troll email addresses that will end up on someones list to deluge you in internet spam. Or put another way, if it looks too good to be true, it probably is so dont make the mistake of rushing for it.
If you do find yourself on an internet spam list, sometimes the senders do allow you to unsubscribe, but again this may simply be a fishing effort from the list owner to ensure that there really is someone at that address to receive the tons of spam that will be sent your way once its assured that you exist, so be wary of all things on the internet, and take care for the internet spammers are everywhere!