Tips to Fight Spam on Your Computer and Cell Phone 8

If you want to avoid junk text messages clogging your cell phone's inbox, never hand out your number (online or in real life) unless you are certain whom you're giving it to. Recently, for example, one of those annoying Facebook quizzes asked participants for their phone numbers so it could send the results by text message. Instead, scammers used the phone numbers to bill users for taking the quiz.





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Subscribe to commentsMarkJun 18th 2009 7:46AM
You forgot the "MAKE SPAMERS FEAR YOU" tip. Creat a "special" contact list for spammers and forward them all every spam mail you get. Some how you get off the list.
summermcfarlandJun 18th 2009 9:12AM
I am really surprised that SpamBully (for Outlook and Outlook Express) didn't make the cut. Also, Thunderbird alone has some awesome spam filtering capabilities... it was better for me than Outlook + an add on program.
YoakaholicJun 19th 2009 3:09PM
I don't know, I have the spam controls with AOL, but I still get a lot of spam in with my "good" mail, and some good mail gets in with my spam, so I have to check both every time I check my email. My bottom line is, don't open if you don't recognize the sender. If spam is deleted often enough, it doesn't take that much time. I sure wouldn't want to keep changing email addresses when it gets discovered by spammers, especially considering what you have to go through to notify the right people. And once you have amassed positive feedback on say half.com, amazon, and ebay, you really don't want to give that up by changing addresses.