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As far as sending various files in the form of photos, documents and spreadsheets, size will always matter. Some free mail accounts used to put limits as far as sending is concerned but not anymore. Today, you can send at most 10MB worth of file sizes to anyone but the next problem would be uploading and downloading them.

For sure, this will drive impatient online users crazy. Apparently, some people just want fast ways of sending and receiving stuff online. But logically, if your file is big, expect waiting time to be a bit delayed. We are not yet that advanced where instant sending can be done.

If your e-mail program allows you to preview the entire message before or while it is being downloaded, turn this setting off. Some e-mails can contain dangerous code that could unknowingly compromise your computer and leave you vulnerable to viruses, worms or worse! Check the options in your e-mail program for a way to disable the message preview pane.

Don’t ever respond to messages claiming to be from your bank, credit card company, or other financial institution, which ask for personally identifiable information such as card or account numbers, passwords, or other private information – even if the e-mail looks to have come from the actual company. It may be a hoax designed to get you to unknowingly part with crucial financial or private contact information, leaving you vulnerable to credit card fraud, identity theft or credit card theft.

If a spam bot finds your email address the chances are you will suffer a deluge of offers for body enhancement products and other useless offers. But there are some simple steps that you can take to stop these email harvesters.

Spambots are computer programs that scour the Internet looking for email addresses. These are fed back to a central database that is then used to send huge volumes of spam emails. Spam now accounts for over 50% of email traffic. The main way to prevent them getting your email address is to make sure it doesn’t appear on the Internet.

For domain owners and users, you will usually get a package deal in have a mail domain nameserver to go with the domain you use. This allows you to assign and create your preferred emails since you own that domain. But one thing you will notice is that you are tasked with maintaining it as well.

This includes tasks as assigning storage quota, email types and handling and whether you want them to be stored on the server or downloaded once accessed. Of the three, the storage quota is important. Remember that if that email is not checked or retrieved regularly, they will pile up, occupying a larger space and eventually become a problem when you start receiving new mail.

Generally, scams are the new malware delivery method in email today and the norm is social engineering. Falsifying a link is the hallmark of seeded downloader Trojans, Phishing scams and other web-based malware. Security providers has been plagued with rogue antiapyware products that makes false claims of infection just to sell product or they drop their own malware to the system. Brand names are significamt regarding your security, both in terms of verifying that the link is legitimate and to know that products are legit. The technique is you should maintain a good security bearing that takes more time than just installing the right product before you install them, and you better be sure that the links you click really leads you where you want to go.

Email marketing has been a top way and form or advertising on the internet nowadays. Business owners, companies and corporations take advantage of the benefits they get from email marketing campaigns. Email marketing has indeed grown to be very popular as it is an effective and innovative way to advertise. But there are of course some techniques and strategies to the trade so business owners cannot just go email on random email addresses in promoting products goods and services. They need to be aware of spamming through random email addresses as well which is against the law. Business owners should hire professional companies who specialize on email marketing services and monitoring in order to protect themselves from inadvertent infringements of the law.

The many mail service providers who offer them as a free service often have spam tagging options that allows them to compile and watch out for similar messages in the future allowing them to block similar attempts in the future. These mail service providers keep tabs on these scams and spam to block them in the transmission phase to prevent bot activity of flooding their servers with multiple messages, overwhelming them and clogging the system enough to cause a DoS attack. (more…)

\The email scam has you getting a notice that your social security, bank account or some other financial account has been compromised by a recent attack and that you are required to click on a link or web site to re-enter all your details for them to re-verify your account and get back on track with your account’s security. (more…)

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A report indicated that only ONE in 12.5 million junk mails usually end up as a SALE. But while this is relatively a small percentage, spammers make a lot of money out of annoying other people with their junk mails. Recently, researches have hacked themselves into a network of zombie PCs, actually controlled by the hackers, the network is called the ‘Storm’. Their intention was to keep track of the actual users that respond to the spam sent through emails and to monitor how much that particular campaign makes. They spent twenty six days attracting the infected pc’s users to a hoax pharmacy that promises to sell them fully guaranteed libido enhancer. The researchers sent a staggering 350 million messages. But they only got 28 response that was translated into a SALE. Overall, when they did the math, they came with $2 million a year stolen money from just about a million PCs at a given time.

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It is quite a habit of web users like us to post our full email addresses on communities and forums, on social networks, blogs and websites. In the long run, you become the target of mail spams. These spammers send loads of junk mail to your Inbox.

Heres a list of ways to mask your email address.
Hiding your email address by spelling it out. This is an effective but comon way and is widely used in public spaces like forums or comments sections. Using forms on the website. This proves to be the most popular and effective way for your guests to contact you.
Creating an image with your email address, posting it any place you want.
Use a disposable email address rather than giving out your work email address.
Using Javascript and CSS as a method to hide the email address.

These may not be fool proof but it offers you better ways to avoid annoying and often destructive mail spammers.