What is
Spam
The best
place to begin would be to explain to you exactly what spam
mail is. Spam is basically just unsolicited commercial emails
that companies send to your inbox.
There are a lot of
reasons why these companies get your email address. You may
have signed up for a newsletter or promotions with one of them,
or you may have ordered a product or service that requires
registration from a website first.
It is common for
companies to share their mailing lists with their
affiliate companies. It’s one of the benefits to having
affiliations. The only problem is that most companies
hide this knowledge in their “terms and agreements” of
their websites. They count on the fact that most people
do not read all the way through them. Of course since it
is mentioned somewhere in their website, it is perfectly
legal.
The
average person can expect to receive anywhere from ten to
twenty spam’s a day in their inbox; depending on how many
promos and registrations they fill out. Once a person
accepts or opens an unsolicited email, they become
plagued by receiving six more in its place. It is a
vicious cycle.
As
the internet has reached its peak popularity during the
past couple of years, so have companies followed suit and
expanded their abilities to advertise. The biggest
problem is that they don’t know when to stop advertising.
The best place to begin with this manual is to give you a
list of some of the things that you may do that will
leave your inbox vulnerable to receiving
spam
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Filling
out a registration for an online newsletter is a common way
for companies to use your inbox to
advertise.
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Registering your inbox for promos and
contests.
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When
installing new software it is common to register your email
address for updates, but it is also leaving yourself open
to spam.
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Signing
yourself up for just about anything online is leaving
yourself open to receiving
spam
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Reviewing books online generally requires
that you provide your email
address
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