Outlook 2000 Spam

Do you get many junk email messages from people you don't know in your Outlook 2000 spam? It's no surprise if you do. As more people use email, marketers are increasingly using email messages to pitch their products and services. Some consumers find unsolicited commercial email in their Outlook 2000 spam - annoying and time consuming; others have lost money to bogus offers that arrived in their email in-box. An Outlook spam filter can help block them.

Typically, an email spammer buys a list of email addresses from a list broker, who collects it by "harvesting" addresses from the Internet. The marketer then uses special software that can send hundreds of thousands - even millions - of email messages to the addresses at the click of a mouse. A free Outlook Express spam blocker is a good solution in stopping spam.

To cut the amount of unwanted commercial email you get in your Outlook 2000 spam:

• Try not to display your email address in public. That includes newsgroup postings, chat rooms, websites or in an online service's membership directory.

• Check the privacy policy when you give your address to a website. See if it allows the company to sell your address. You may want to opt out of this provision, if possible. If not, your anti-spam software for Outlook can filter them out.

• Read and understand the entire form before you send personal information through a website. Some web sites allow you to opt out of getting email from its "partners" - but you may have to uncheck a preselected box if you want to opt out.

• Decide if you want to use two email addresses - one for personal messages and one for newsgroups and chat rooms that will most likely have a lot of Outlook 2000 spam where your Microsoft Outlook spam filter can assist.

• Use an email filter. Check your email account to see if it provides a tool to filter out potential spam or a way to channel spam into a bulk email folder. Some of the more advanced filters such as CRM114 uses Markovian Discrimination to block unwanted spam, phishing, and email fraud. Do NOT use any outdated Naive Bayesian filtering spam blockers, as recently, spammers have defeated them.

If you get unwanted spam email, you can:

• Tell it to the Federal Trade Commission. Send a copy of any unwanted or deceptive messages to spam@uce.gov. If you want to complain about a removal link that doesn't work or not being able to unsubcribe from a list, you can fill out the FTC's online complaint form at www.ftc.gov. Your complaint will be added to the FTC's Consumer Sentinel database and made available to hundreds of law enforcement and consumer protection agencies. Whenever you complain about spam, it's important to include the full email header.

• Send a copy of the spam to your ISP's abuse desk. By doing this, you can let the ISP know about the spam problem on their system and help them stop it in the future.

• Complain to the sender's ISP. Most ISPs want to cut off spammers who abuse their system so that you can reduce your Outlook 2000 spam.

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