| A good portion, if not the majority of email traffic on | | | | In a business environment, email services are often |
| the internet today is spam related. The subject | | | | hosted in house or outsourced. An organization or |
| matter of spam emails can include discounted Viagra, | | | | business may also want to standardize their email |
| inexpensive Rolex watches, a surprise inheritance and | | | | address format in a way that makes it harder for |
| any other type of scam imaginable. If your email | | | | spammers to guess or discover legitimate email |
| address is more than a few years old or even only a | | | | addresses. Another good option for organizations |
| few months, it is inevitable the spam will find its way | | | | that have a high volume of inbound emails is to enlist |
| into your in-box. You are not without hope though. | | | | with an external to the organization spam filtering |
| The following tips and suggestions can help alleviate | | | | gateway service. This type of service receives all |
| the influx of spam email messages. | | | | inbound emails and filters it before passing it on, |
| For personal use email, create an address that is not | | | | majority spam free, to the final destination. An |
| easily guessed by random email generators. Use a | | | | alternative to an external gateway spam filtering |
| non-alpha character such as a period or an | | | | service would be to install spam filtering capabilities |
| underscore. Don not post your email address on | | | | internally. |
| publicly accessible web pages where they then can | | | | Lastly, make sure to implement safe computing |
| be picked up by email scraping software. If you are | | | | practices on home or work computers. Ensure that |
| signed up with one of the many free email providers, | | | | anti-spyware or antivirus software is always installed |
| be sure to enable any provided spam filtering | | | | and up to date. Encourage friends and colleagues to |
| services. If you download your emails to an email | | | | do the same to help prevent your email address |
| client on your computer like Outlook or Outlook | | | | from being harvested from a contact or address list |
| Express, consider installing spam filtering software | | | | on their computers via a backdoor Trojan or virus. |
| that integrates with Outlook and other email clients. | | | | |