SPAM or unsolicited email accounts to 80% of global email traffic. This means that most of us spend an ever increasing amount of unnecessary time sifting through our inbox’s. Whether you work for a business or are just an individual you will find this very irritating, especially when everyday you may have over 100 spam emails. Some of the mail is often fraudulent and can cause a lot of damage to computers and files. If you don’t know who the email is off and you think it is spam the best thing to do is not open it and junk mail the email if you have this tool with your email provider. It seems there are no laws to protect us however some countries do have anti spam laws but the spammers always find a way around this by finding other countries to target like the UK where no laws are in place at the moment.
Companies who have a website are more likely to receive spam due to your email address on your website. It can take a good hour to sift through a company inbox full of spam, this wastes time and lost revenue for the company. Spam can also make your computer system shut down and loose data via worms and viruses. These issues cause more problems for a company in time as well as money. In the last 6 years spam has rapidly increased from 8% of emails being sent in 2001 to 40% of emails being spam in 2006/7.
So what can we do to prevent or stop spam? Well you can use a spam filters but these only do half the job. They can easily make errors and accidentally delete legitimate mail, which especially is a work environment, can be very important. There is also password system where you don’t accept an email from an unknown source unless it has your password. Obviously the trouble with this is that anyone who you don’t know and who doesn’t know your password wont get through and you may miss important emails from people you may know but don’t have your password. This is obviously not good for companies that rely on new customers emailing them.
Your best bet is to find a good piece of spam filter software that will capture emails that look like spam before you receive the email in your inbox. You may then be able to just check you junk inbox and see if any of the emails it has put in there are not spam, this is only possible on some email providers. You inbox should now only show your emails from mainly people you know and maybe the odd email of spam but the spam filter software will definitely help reduce your spam problem. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Jene is the webmaster of MySpamBin a leading UK seller of Anti Spam software.
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