What can I do to prevent Spam?

Because it takes so many different forms, it's virtually impossible to block all spam from appearing in your e-mail account, but there are ways to avoid receiving a lot of it and even help in the fight against the spammers.

Your e-mail provider may have its own system which attempts to filter out a lot of the spam you might otherwise receive. They do this by automatically checking your e-mails for common spam messages, keywords or known spammers' addresses, then place any they find in a separate Spam/Junk/Bulk folder rather than your Inbox.

It is worth having a quick look through your Spam folder occasionally in case some legitimate e-mails have been falsely identified as spam by the system. There is usually an option to move the mail back to your Inbox, or even mark it as Not Spam to help the system identify e-mails that are safe to receive.

Some providers allow you to mark any junk mail you do receive in your Inbox as Spam, to help prevent you getting it again and to stop others receiving it too.

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In addition, if you also use client e-mail (example: outlook). i highly recommend SpamBayes to be installed in your system. I've been using this for a couple of months now and the filter rate is really good. Here's the site where you can download the software (this is free): http://spambayes.sourceforge.net