By installing a Barracuda Spam Firewall, your company's spam will be immediately reduced however, listed below are some useful tips to help minimize your email address exposure to spam.
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Reason |
Use unusual email addresses |
Some spammers use programs to guess email addresses. By using unusual email
addresses that contain numbers and letters you can prevent this tactic from working. |
Don't provide email address over IM |
Do not send your email address through chat rooms,
instant message services or Internet bulletin boards and newsgroups. |
Provide a form not an email address |
If you want to enable users of your Web site to contact you online, provide a form. Make sure the "send to"
email address is not contained in the page HTML, but in the form processing script. |
Never reply to spam messages |
Never reply to spam messages even when they entice you to reply to "unsubscribe" from their mailing list.
The instructions can either be fake or a another way of collecting more legitimate email addresses. Resulting in you
receiving even more spam. |
Use fake email addresses |
Most web-based sign up forms require an email address. If you don't want to hear from
the site (and don't need a confirmation e-mail or technical support), don't give a real email address. |
Opt out |
When you do sign up for or buy something online and you have to give out your email address,
opt out of everything you don't want to receive. |
Never submit personal information to non-secure websites |
Never submit your credit card details or other personal information to non-secure websites. Secure sites can be
identified by the locked padlock icon that will appear in yellow on the bottom bar of the order form web browser. |
