Spam mails are a form of digital malevolence that penetrates your mail account without your authorization. Spam mails are usually termed as junk mails. Spam mails are occasionally distinguished as digital threats because they can sometimes be a doorway for the ingress of malicious contents, network hacks, data loss, improper access control, phishing, social engineering, etc.

According to the study made by Radicati group, spam mails constitute 70% of the total traffic on net and this number is expected to be 79% in next year.

As the statistics collected the number of spam mails received in June 2006 is 55 billion, this number shot up to 90 billion in February 2007, while in April 2008, total number of span mails circulated are 100 billion in a day. The above data demonstrates gradual boost in spam mails reception from time to time. Degree of spam mails escorts to frustration of the users as it fills up precious user’s storage area. A spam mail can be one of the following forms:

• Unsolicited bulk e-mail

• Unwanted commercial mail

• Any email with unknown sender

• Any fraud e-mail.

It is necessary to pursue some dos and don’ts to deal with these spam mails. Here we are discussing some very important points to tackle these spam mails:-

Do’s

1. Avoid giving your e-mail id to everyone. Be vigilant during getting any service through internet.

2. Read out all the check boxes before ticking them during registration on a web site.

3. Use e-mail service from a reputed or recognized e-mail service provider. Big companies afford service against spam mails. Eg. Yahoo mail’s new version provides free spam guard protection.

4. Pertain some blocking technique to chunk these spam mails.

5. Be careful during opening attachments with your mail. Many e-mail service providers check for any virus presence before opening an attachment. This could be an excellent practice to deal with spam mails. Yahoo mail provides such service.

Don’ts

1. Don’t ever reply a spam mail. This will persuade more spam mails on your mail account.

2. Don’t advertise your e-mail address. Spammers many times imitate e-mail addresses for sending mails.

3. Never try to open e-mails with subject line like “private and confidential”, “special offer for you”, “we need to meet” or “you have won a gift voucher” etc. These catchy phrases could be a spam mail.

4. Never forward such mails to any body else.

5. Never click on the URL address provided on spam mails. This will open doors for the entry of future spam mails.

If a user tracks above said conventions, he/she can defend its e-mail account to get infected with spam mails.