[jambutty]

Originally Posted by panther

does anyone know how to stop naughty emails?
keep getting one for willy enlargement............no i havent been on naughty sights either

One of the problems is the choice of user name when registering with an ISP or web mail. Most people will choose a real word as the user name. It’s only natural.

Just suppose that you chose susanna as your user name. The spammers then send out spam to susanna1 or 2 etc and also to sus******. They could also actually hit on your username by accident.

So to counter them to a great degree, chose a user name of 8 or 9 random characters with a number in the middle. Just make sure that the first few random characters are not the beginning of a real word. For example freswp8qmk. fre is the start of many words so use fnxswp8qmk instead. I can’t think of a single word that starts off with fnxsw, not even a foreign word.

Sooner or later the spammers will work out a way to send a spam email to everyone regardless of their user name but in order to find your 10 random character username they would have to try 10 to the power of 36 combinations, that is 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.

Most ISP’s will allow you to have up to five different email addresses and you can dump the extra four and replace them at any time so don’t use your Primary email address.

Use one of your secondary email addresses for things like Internet banking, PayPal, Moneybookers, E-Gold and very important things. Use another as your general purpose email. Sooner or later it will start to get clogged with spam so you just dump it and use another. With no registered email account the spam will have nowhere to go.

Of course it will mean you having to contact everyone who has that email address with your new one. But this could give you the opportunity to dump old programmes that you registered with where your request to be deleted from their database has not happened and they still send you offers.

You could do the same with web mail.