After several months of setting up an email or blog account normally what you would experience is how fast spams attack your email and blog. And now starts to think whether you really need a dosage of Viagra, how to satisfy someone in bed steel hard, give confidential information such as bank account and whether those million dollar fortunes are real. But the truth is that all of these are spams.

After several years on spending time on the internet, I had documented some practical tips on how to prevent from receiving these spams that might be of help.

Never Exposed Your Email

As the number one rule - never ever exposed your email. On the interent, people create system that crawl to websites to look for the symbol “@”. And once found, attacking never stops. As a recommendation, one may use “[at]” and “[dot]” as a substitute. Another would be to use images instead of text. You can also use forms to let someone simply click on a button to send email. There are several free web forms being offered for free.

Never Ever Respond to Spams

As a second tip, never ever respond to spams. Their persistence continues when they had confirmed that an email is indeed active and used. When you respond to emails asking for complete name, telephone, address you might be in big trouble, since this information are often used to hack identities. So responding to spams is a no-no.

Auto Filter Keywords

Though sometimes it doesn’t work very effectively, this can be helpful. By filtering spam keywords such as viagra, sex, adult, nude, undress, software, discount, hook up tonight and many more emails containing these keywords can be automatically deleted or put up in the bulk folder.

You can resort to this as a last priority, because sometimes emails that are not spams might be automatically deleted that results in to you not receiving it.

Use Human Identifier Software or Plugin

For a blog, one may use human identifier plugin. What is this? A form below the comment facility on your blog that enables reader to match the word being shown on the graphics. A variety of this plugin test the mathematical skills of a reader be letting him add 1+1 or 1+2. If you don’t have these, then comment moderation might be of help.

Avoid Articles that Attracts Spam Commenters

Articles such as “free link back” is a no no in blogging. Since this attracts spam commenters and your blog will be subject for attack.

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