Internet+Saftey+spam

Spam What is Spam? Spam is unwanted electronic junk mail. Some types of Spam’s are e-mail spamming, instant messaging spam, Web search engine spam, spam in blogs and mobile phone messaging spam. Spam has also been called "spew" and "scam". Some Spam may also be email advertisements for some products sent to mailing list or newsgroup. Spam wastes people time. Many people also find spam insulting because of the pornography advertisements. Spammers send their spam usually at random, so pornographic ads can show up in a work place e-mail inbox or worse, a child's inbox.

The most common type of spam is email spamming. The question is how do spammers get email addresses? Well, there are many ways. One in which is harvesting email addresses. This means getting email address from web pages and DNS (stores and gives many information about domain names) listings. Another way spammers get email addresses is by searching for email addresses that relates to a specific person. Besides those two ways there are many other ways spammers get email addresses, including installing programs called web spider that browse the World Wide Web.

Why do spammers spam? E-mail and other types of spamming have been used for more purposes other than advertisement. Some spam's may also be religious or political. A lot of criminals are also using spam to do many kinds of crimes. Like, using spam to convince or make people go to locations where they’ll be kidnapped, robbed, and even murdered. Some Spammers spam so they can do identity theft crimes. Most spam requires people to respond. If you respond to the spam, the spammers have your personnel data, or at least your identity to do crimes. They commit crimes leaving the victim to face the costs. One stupid reason why spammers spam is because they use free dial-up accounts, so their costs may be low.

How do I fight Spam? To fight spam you need software programs. Some Usenet servers use spam-cancelling techniques like SpamHippo or NoCeM to remove any spam messages they get. If you don’t have Usenet servers maybe you should get SpamAssassin, BogoFilter or Mailwasher for when you’re downloading your email. Although there are many programs to choose from, many mailing systems have spam-filtering features. A lot of services are now offering this, usually as part of their regular package. Something you can always do to fight spam is never opening them and just deleting them and if you do open them at least don’t click on any link it invites you in and don’t respond. If you do, that just telling the spammer that the email account is active. If you’re a child also delete it or tell your parents, as soon as you get it.