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By Spam Blocker
What is spam? Spam and junk mail is the same thing. It is that mail that disturbs you when you are checking your mail. You get a big number of recently received messages and would probably be excited about reading them. But, unfortunately for you, almost all of these messages are just advertisements of products you neither know nor care about.
Sometimes spam consists of various horoscope details and some even messages that you do not understand. You do not understand them because they are in an absolutely different language. No word is in English; all of them are in a foreign dialect. If you speak English and no other language, then this nuisance is definitely the problem you should solve.
Spam is becoming a bigger problem for the Internet every minute. And it also becomes a bigger problem for your email address every second. You need to do something to make the Internet a better place, at the same time, giving your inbox more space. There is no way for you to lose.
How to use disposable email addresses
A disposable email address is one you create on a temporary basis for use on web sites you do not know or trust. Rather than hand over your real email address you give them a disposable email address which you delete should it later prove to be used to spam you as a result.
You can create disposable addresses in several ways
If you have a web site you may have email facilities to create unlimited email accounts so can create one or more to suit the above needs for spam protection. In some cases you do not need to create separate POP accounts on your web site, just add a special name at the front of the domain - even they name of the site or service you join - newsite@mydomain.com where newsite is the new untrusted web site you just join.
Some online email accounts offer the creation and control of disposable emails. For more reading see how Yahoo offers disposable email addresses with the online email service under their premium service, and extension to their Free email http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools?tool=3
The use of disposable emails does have its value, as new mail which is bring spam can highlight email addresses causing the problem and you can delete those addresses, or redirect new mail to the trash as spam.
Use Gmail to find who is SPAMMING you
We will never share, sell, or rent your personal information with anyone without your advance permission.
How often have you come across this line. If you ask me, I would say that I see this almost everytime I register for something online. But still, I doubt if each one of those people getting your personal information ever stick to their word. If they had , there would never exist anything called spam. Ok, there is one way you can find out who is spamming you, or rather who leaked your info. All you need is a gmail account. If you already have one, here is how you proceed.
Gmail offers the facility to use multiple email addresses. In the sense that suppose my email id is test@gmail.com, any email of the form test+any_letters_here@gmail.com also reaches my inbox. So, each time you register to a particular website, provide your email address as yourid+websitename@gmail.com.
Now, all these mails from all the sites get into your inbox. You need to classify the mails according to the source. To do this, go to settings inside your account. Here, click Filter. Set a unique label for all emails that are delivered to that one particular yourid+websitename@gmail.com email id.
Now, you only need to keep track of whether all the emails delivered under one label are from one particular website only. If there is another website sending you an email from a label that it is not supposed to send to, then you can very easily make out that it is this website that leaked your information to the spammer!
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