Much of the confusion regarding spam comes from a lack of understanding the everyday email user may have regarding the ways and motivations of the spammers.

While most spam is generally mailed out to advertise a product or service, some is malicious in content and intent. It runs the gamut from jokes and ads, to stock-market scams and virus-laden emails.

Top tricks of the spammer

The spammer's most fervent hope is that you are ignorant of the tricks and tactics used to spam your inbox. Learning the spammer's nefarious ways is your best protection against spam.

Spammers tend to direct the dictionary attacks at the large email companies, which have a large number of customers.

Social engineering: This spammer ploy attempts to fool the recipient into reading the junk email by pretending to be an acquaintance. It involves a junk email that has a "personal" subject line, such as "I'm leaving tomorrow," "I got your message" or "Let's meet again".

Mining message boards and chat rooms: When you post a message to a message board or chat room and leave your email address, automated programs called spambots will find your address and add it to the spammer's mailing list. Much like a listed phone number in the telephone directory, leaving your email at these types of websites makes it public information.

Spam is definitely irritating and maliciously destructive at worst. Buying the right anti-spam software will go a long way toward protecting you from the spammers of the world.

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