In 2003, the first national standard around bulk unsolicited commercial email was signed by President Bush and it’s called the “Can Spam.” The bill prohibits senders of unsolicited commercial e-mail from using false return addresses to disguise their identity (spoofing) and the use of dictionaries to generate such mailers. In addition, the use of misleading subject lines is also prohibited and emails are required to include opt-out mechanism. The legislation also prohibits senders from harvesting addresses off Web sites. However, spam is, like the internet, international. It is harder to fight these emails due to the fact that they came from outside our country’s laws and regulations.

Here are 4 tips to protect you from spam.

Avoid making your email address available on the internet. Products called “spam spiders” are searching the Internet in order to find email addresses to send email to. You can do a search on “spam spider” if you are interested and you will be amazed at what you get back. Try these suggestions if you need some form of contact information on a website.

Using form emails which can hide addresses is what you can do.

Instead of your personal address, try using addresses like sales@company.com.

There are programs available that encode your email address on web pages so that spam spiders find it difficult to read your email address.

How about getting a spam blocking software?

There are many programs out there for this. Some are free, although if you have a problem with spam you may want to buy a professional version.

Use the multiple email address approach.

A lot of free email addresses are what you can have. If you must subscribe to newsletters, then have a “back-up” email address.

Opening attachments from people you don’t know is what you need to avoid.

When it comes to spam, the common problem is that they have attachments which would often unleash viruses. As a general rule, if you don’t know who is sending you something, then you must never open that attachment. Services that offer filtering is the second thing you need to do. Unsubscribing from spam just tells spammers they have a valid email address – and they will sell it to other spammers.

Simple precautions like these can help to minimize the amount of spam you receive in your inbox. These precautions seem to be the better option if you add up how long it takes you to wade through and delete all the spam.

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