What Are Spam Emails And How To Avoid Them?

By Author: Clara Ross
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Internet made communication easier for businesses. At the beginning some of the businesses did not adopt it and considered it as a useless technology for businesses. But the need of internet was soon realized by every kind of business. It gave a facility to communicate instantly with a lot of people at once.
People moved towards online businesses considering it a useful tool for the making money. The number of traders using online sources was never as huge as it is now. Businesses do e-mail marketing to capture the potential customers which proves to be profitable. But with every positive aspect there is a negative one too. Just take an example of air conditioners and refrigerators. Air conditions keep us cool in hot sunny weather whereas refrigerators preserve food items for us and facilitate us to keep the food items cool. But the negative effect of these technologies is that they exhaust a gas R-22 and HCFC which cause damage to the ozone layer. Another example could be the paper industry. To obtain raw material for making papers the paper manufacturing companies have to cut down the trees which is considered bad for ...
... the environment. Similarly, with the internet and online businesses at their peak, spamming is there to play the negative role.
People doing online sale and purchase transactions, become a prey to spamming. Spam means to do an online promotion with unfair means. Most of the online businesses do spamming by sending emails to people and keep striking them with the product to buy. Spammers send such links to the browsers on which when a browser clicks he becomes liable to make payments. Unless one stops using internet he can not get rid of the spam emails. The best way to avoid the spam emails is to provide email to the limited number of people. Most of the spammers get the emails through these websites. The next step one should take is to increase the junk mail settings of his inbox. If someone is sending emails daily with the spam content then mark it as junk and direct it to the junk folder. Remember not to open any of the junk mails. Avoid clicking on the links which say free, money or any currency sign. No one can give money for free or for doing nothing. Therefore people should avoid believing in those spam emails.
If there is confusion that whether a company offering a product is genuine or not then the best way to avoid the spam is to contact the company directly through its website or give the company a call. The last and the most important way to avoid spam email is to use anti-spamming software. An anti spamming software help to identify which emails are genuine and which are not. Websites like hotmail, yahoo and other social media networking sites have pre installed anti spamming software's. To do an online business it is important to avoid spammers. One should not believe any spam email or offer unless it is proven that the source is genuine.

Clara Ross is the writer for online business community , Best Mobile Reviews and B2B Business Blog . The author has got more than a decade of experience in the real estate, marketing, and wholesale industries and has been writing articles in industry related magazines, websites and blogs.