I use this email sparingly. I know that after I applied for "no obiligation" mortgage requests, that my email address is now being spammed. I KNOW that it was because of these mortgage things. They state "your email will not be used for any other purpose" blah blah…
How do I report this? It really makes me mad that they can lie and say your email won’t be used for anything else.
If anything, let this be a warning to everyone–don’t check mortgage rates or go into any of these ads that are the homepages of yahoo, aol, etc.
They don’t ask for your social security number or anything like that–but it’s still frustrating to get emails that say "hey, take a look at my brother in law’s wife-isn’t she hot?"…
Spam A-holes should be shot.
Yes, you can get spam from many of these type of sites. Below are some tips to try and minimize spam.
You shouldn’t open unsolicted email from unknown sources. Often what happens is that when you open up spam, it sends back a trigger to the originating source indicating that a valid email address has been found thus subjecting you to even more spam down the road. Even using the preview pane in email products sends web beacons back to spammers.( http://helpdesk.gwu.edu/mailfilter/spam.html )
Here are a few steps you can take to try and avoid spam.
1. Don’t open unsolicited Spam. Often what happens is that when you open up spam, it sends back a trigger to the originating source indicating that a valid email address has been found thus subjecting you to even more spam down the road.
2. Don’t use the Preview Pane for the same reasons as #1
3. Set you email options to accept mail from only people in your address book or safe lists.
4. Set some filters to automatically route spam to certain folders for easy deletion later.
5. Use a throwaway account for any online registrations you need such as news sites and contests, etc. Often these email addresses are sold to other places, particularly advertising firms. If the throwaway account gets over run, you can simply delete it and create another.
6. Use the BCC when composing emails and encourage your friends to do the same. What this does is protects mailing lists from email harvesters.
7. You can consider using a third party application such as SpamFighter (free version can only be used for 1 account and it is for Outlook and Outlook Express only) http://www.spamfighter.com/
8. Never reply to any spam email that you happen to open and receive for the same reason as #1 above.
You can see more info at the webpage below:
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/tips/ST04-007.html