Do not give out your email address

Sunday, October 22. 2006

When you stumble upon a site that asks you to input an email address before you can access their data, try as much as possible to resist the urge, because these sites are the mostly the breeding ground of spammers. For sure, there are other sites that can give you the same information without asking for your e-mail address. But in case you can’t find another similar site, do not, I repeat, do not give the e-mail address you are using, or the account that is of most of importance to you. Give them an e-mail address that you have not used in a while, or an address that you use for leisure purposes. This way, you are preventing yourself from receiving spam messages.

Posted by Samuel Thomason in Spam Fighting Secrets at 01:13 | Comments (0) | Trackback (1)

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