Email Spams
As spam is cheap and easy to create, fraudsters increasingly use it to find investors for bogus investment scheme or to spread false information about a company. Spam allows fraudsters to target many more potential investors than cold calling or mass mailing. Spammers actually can send personalized messages to thousands and even millions of Internet users at a time by using a bulk e-mail program.
How To Reduce Spams
Always use a separate email address when you post to newsgroups and mailing lists and this email address should not be used for personal email. Then, you can quickly browse the email in this account to see what's spam and what isn't. And your main personal email address would not be as clogged with spam.
Do not buy anything from a company that spams or visit their sites and get more information. If you respond to their spams, you're encouraging them to continue spamming.
What to do if you get spammed?
Probably the most ineffective anti-spam technique is asking the spammer to stop. It virtually never works.
Complain to the ISP of the spammer.
If the spam includes a URL, like the "Bargains" spam, complain to the postmaster of that domain and to the ISP or company that hosts that domain. Often, the company will deny that they are even aware of the spam, which may or may not be true.
Complain to other relevant companies.
