A Comprehensive Guide to Battle Spam - By: Qandeel Janjua

Battling spam is like battling any other unfair and evil enemy in which you come up with different tactics to fight only to find out that the enemy has a counter strategy against yours. However, when it comes to fighting scam, there are several intelligent strategies that can be used in order to prevent any spammer damage your email system.With the assistance of many automated programs, spammers can easily create a big list of email addresses without choosing them manually. There are many counter programs that have specifically designed to fight the automated spam programs but before discussing how to effectively fight scam, it would be helpful to first understand how these software used by spammers work.One of the most widely used tools by spammers is the ‘spambot’. This program facilitates the spamming activities as it randomly search sites for legitimate addresses. The software then keeps on selecting and compiling these addresses throughout the course of its search and the result is a large list of email addresses available to be spammed. There are some very thoughtful techniques that can be implemented in order to shield your email. The crucial plan is to stop the spambot from picking up your email address. This can be done by avoiding putting in comments to blogs or in any social forum. It is important to have a secondary address which can be given on email sites when you are blogging or giving comments on any website. Reserve this secondary account for commercial purposes which would allow you to keep your personal address unharmed. Popular web domains such as Yahoo and Hotmail are mainly the target of spambots. There are some website that have used effective strategies to repel these spambots away. In this way you can get bulk of spam mails but such sites provide the option for switching them around. Even though spambots work effectively, yet they only do as they are told to and hence there is enough room for fooling them through the use of skillful techniques. One of such method is to disguise your public email address as a non-detectable address. A spambot is much likely to overlook your address if it is not written in a traditional form with a ‘@’ sign. You can trick the program by adopting such an address that differs from the usual type. Even if your address is picked up by the spambot, there are adequate chances that it will be ‘scrubbed’ before it is usable. Scrubbing routines are complex to design because there exists many variations in the process. However the changes are convenient for people to decipher but are difficult for the software. There are also several spam filters available that can help in this regard. If your webmaster has a good filter then you won’t have much to worry about because the filter will scan every mail that comes in your inbox to sort of the junk mails from the regular normal mails. You even get the option to report all the mails to the spam folder unless they are from your trusted contacts. Hence it is extremely necessary to adopt any of the defensive strategies against spam and if one of your technique fails to repel the spammer, you should go on to follow the next if you want ample protection of your account.

About the Author

Qandeel Janjua is the Director of Web & New Media at One Tec Solutions. With experience of SEO, Content Writing and Creative Web Design spanning over a decade he now looks forward to leading small businesses into search and social media success. He holds strong views against online spam & fraudulent activities.

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