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10 Tips For Dealing With Spam
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Article Overview: While spam is a fact of life these days and if you're already receiving it, difficult to get rid of, there a few things you can do to prevent or reduce it's appearance.
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10 Tips For Dealing With Spam
While spam is a fact of life these days and if you're already receiving it, difficult to get rid of, there a few things you can do to prevent or reduce it's appearance.
1. Never give out your email address to someone you don't know or trust. Treat it like your phone number or home address.
2. Switch on junk mail filters that come with your mail system. Outlook, Hotmail and AOL all have built-in filters, make sure these are turned on.
3. When creating your email address use letters, number and underscore if possible. This makes it more difficult for spammers to find your email address using automated email generators.
4. Create a second dummy or junkmail address to use online. Use this if you need to register on a site. You can always change it later.
5. Never respond to emails unless they're from someone you know or something you've personally subscribed to - it just confirms your address is valid and you'll keep getting more spam as valid emails are traded amongst spammers.
6. Never forward spam or chain emails - you risk forwarding on your own and other's email addresses for the world and spammers to see. Use sites like BreakTheChain and Snopes to check for hoax and chain emails.
7. Never unsubscribe from 'spam' email - sometimes all this does is just validate your address and it gets passed on. Unsolicited email from valid businesses should give an option to unsubscribe.
8. Wise-up. You really won't win a lottery you never entered. You aren't going to receive thousands for helping a nigerian businessman, african politician ... get his money out of the country. Banks will usually address you by name, not 'Dear Customer'.
9. Never click on links in spam emails - phishing emails will capture your userid/pswd or account details on a 'fake' website.Check the actual URL address in the email - it's usually obvious it's faked. (Usually displayed on the bottom of the screen, in a pop-up when you hover over it).
10. Use Anti-virus software. It doesn't take much for a virus to slip through, especially in a tempting attachment. Better to protect yourself than risk losing data. McAfee, Norton and AVG do online versions 'that automatically update.
And on that subject - take regular back-ups. Where would you be if you lost your PC for a period of time? How valuable is your work?
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Tips for managers to handle employees more effectively?
Tips on how to deal with difficult customers?
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The only three I have in mind right now, but will try to come up with something else.
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- This is purely advertising, it should be regarded as a Spam.
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- Haha... great thread here, guys.
Nice name, Michelle, I think that would suit very well.
I wonder just how many websites and forums could benefit from a service like this. Anyone ever look into it? Spam is a serious problem for many, many people. I imagine there are those who would be willing to pay for a service to get rid of the never-ending nightmare.
Young Entrepreneur in International trading
- I just turned 21 last week, and I currently own a international trading company doing trades between China, Taiwan, Thailand, and west coast of US and starting out in Canada soon. Dealing with gift items and general merchandise.
We are also trying to sell some of the stuff we import as retail and wholesale products on the internet and to retail venders as we do have a lot of extra pallets that gets left over from our buyers.
Depressed Entrepreneurs
- Thank you for your feedback. It seems to be the weather, isolation and some unfavourable projects getting my clients down.
I personally find myself feeling quite grey with the weather. So much so that I spend as little time in my Vancouver office as I need to - it so slow and depressing there for me.
In any case, thank you. Perhaps this is an issue we should be more proactive about in our entrepreneur resources. Dealing with the emotional issues of entrepreneurship.
Thanks Kevin for the articles. The one was the exact one I was looking for. Must of been having a blonde moment in my searches
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