how to Prevent spam and chain mail or email on the Internet.

As a guard against spam, measures to prevent, reduce and minimize the detrimental effects of spam on the internet, how to identify and denounce emitting sites. 
Article dedicated to putting a small grain of sand in the fight against spam, understand their characteristics , operation and objectives.Open the eyes of users against common practices on the Internet for this purpose such as chain letters. 
Measures to minimize the impact of spam, how to track and identify the sites dedicated to this task and how and where to report them.

What is SPAM or junk mail?

Spam, now famous, also known as junk mail is just spam messages containing unwanted advertising and annoying. 
There are several ways to send spam through your phone, internet blogs, but which this article is sent via electronic mail or email. 
Here is a tool used by companies engaged in sales and online business to advertise their products and services improperly and dishonestly , or "forcibly." 
They use the spam porn sites, casinos and online gambling sites, vendors of all types and others are just scammers. It is widely used until recently for misleading job. 
Spam exists and survives on the income it generates, in part due to the unwary to fall into their nets, but were so no one would be devoted to these messages.

How do spammers obtain email addresses?

Businesses and large sites that are dedicated to spam, known as spammers have bots or spiders that constantly scan the network, identifying the email addresses that are impregnated into documents or web pages thanks to its unique format. 
also extracted from the social networks like Facebook that are full of addresses, the messages that are sent massively on the Internet with friends such as jokes, PowerPoint presentations and thanks to the famous  chain letters  that are created specifically for this purpose.

What are chain letters?

For many years are very popular calls or email chain letters, despite the illogic of what they propose, are on the naivete of some users and the good feelings of the people, the reason for being. 
They are only requests included in the emails received forward them simultaneously with other users, thus contributing to a worthy cause or to have claimed benefits, this system is also commonly found in the presentations made ​​in PowerPoint. 
Some of the messages have the following style:

Send this email to 10 people and fulfill your desires. 
Send this email to all your friends to help the girl that ... 
Send this presentation to all your friends to ...

What is the purpose of chain letters?

The chains have been created by spammers, your only goal is to collect email addresses that are valid and are functional. Subsequently bombarded with spam these addresses and even sold the lists to other spammers or companies engaged in the business. 
In a manner similar to spyware that reviews in our address book contacts from our friends, the chains that manage them ourselves send addresses to spammers in the most simple. 
How do they do?

When forwarding a received message simultaneously to several of our friends using the function CC (Carbon Copy) of our mail client software, these addresses are uncovered, so you can check to receive one of these multiple messages. 
It is clear as receiving one of these emails is specified:  "forward this email, including the sender's list"  , of course you are sending the spammer on a silver platter email addresses of all your friends.

Other ways to capture email addresses

Another way to provide an email address that is valid and functional, is to receive a message, relying on the option: "Give a click here to no longer receive these messages" . FALSE! , Just follow in order to verify that the address is valid and active. In response, automatically informing you that your address is valid, so we will continue to send emails and additionally sell your address to other spammers. To summarize, all style messages: Contributes to save this poor child cancer ... are FALSE!, all claiming to be forwarded, if you do you become an accomplice only in passing and can help spread some malware or viruses that are an inseparable part of spam. Keep in mind that God does miracles on the Internet, not only fulfills wishes for forwarding emails.

Common examples of chain letters

• Help a sick child. 
• Apple is giving away several IPad, go in the draw. 
• Your email address was chosen from thousands as the winner! 
• Bill Gates is giving away $ 1,000 and a trip to Disneyland. 
• This will will bring more luck or will give you a desire faster and more people will re-send. 
• Send this to many people and who sent it, to show how much you want. 
DO NOT DO COMPLICE GAME!

How to avoid spam on the email or email

Spam takes years fighting and not achieved, nor will ever eradicate it completely, but there are a number of essential measures to use them, decrease the possibility that spam affects us, are as follows.

1 - Use if possible an email client that includes a spam filter, but not totally effective, eases somewhat by removing suspicious messages.
Use it carefully and regularly review the messages that have been considered as spam, to check effectiveness. (The anti-spam filter for WordPress (Akismet) was for weeks moving all messages sent to my blog readers, to the junk box) 
2 - Do not participate in any chain mail. 
3 - Do not open any attachment from an e , especially. DOC or. EXE that are not specified in the message body. 
4 - If you participate in forums, sharing Internet sites, comment on blogs, use an alternative email address, never your principal. 
5 - Avoid subscription to receive content on sites that are not trusted. 
6 - Use an alternative email address to sign up for social networks like Facebook, automatically use the address that will be targeted by spammers which swarm in those sites. 
7 - If you own a blog or web site hidden email address, there are several methods to make it impossible for spammers to identify it, either encrypting or using an image as a substitute.

How to send an email to multiple email addresses

It may well send a message to multiple addresses simultaneously without compromising delatarlas, for that do the following:

-Rather than use the CC (carbon copy), used whenever it is available: Bcc (blind carbon copy), so you will not expose email addresses. 
'If you send an email that is not part of a chain, but was sent to multiple addresses simultaneously, before using the Forward button, delete the above addresses.

Report sites as spammers

If you think you're in the duty to report a site that is dedicated to the issue of spam, there are ways to report it and report it. 
Of checked, this site will be included in the databases and the spam filter and will not cause damage to other users.

How to report a site to Google spammer

Google is just an internet browser, but is most often used and has earned a great reputation, so it has a powerful influence on the operation of the network. 
They offer a tool to report any site engaged in practices spamming and if proven, will be removed from the search index. 
Use this tool at the following link: www.google.com / webmasters / tools / SpamReport

Black lists of email addresses

There are several public lists on the Internet known as Black list (RBL), which contain the IP addresses of sites that are considered as spammers, such lists are consulted by the mail server before sending or receiving an email. 
In case of conflicts with an email address, you can manually check is in one of these lists.

Sources of phishing sites or malware

In these sites you can check manually at any time, any suspicion that a website is sending phishing or malware.

-  http://www.antiphishing.org/
-  http://www.stopbadware.org/

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