Every online user will receive a spam email to their email account. Actually how the spammers evade the security system and how many are falling as victim are mainly due to the users act.
Spam are nothing but unwanted mails that are targeted for main focus such as Advertisement (not that only). Now there may be few questions within yourself how they get your email id?
The answer is very simple it is the user who are giving their mail id. The possibilities may be Filling a survey online / offline, Providing data in untrusted sites, Disclosure of email account in social networking sites. There is another interesting thing.
Actually spammers is not sure that you are using the account so they will send you a sample test mail with "Unsubscribe this Thread" option, we usually click it to prevent further irritation there comes the problem, clicking will notify spammer that "This email id is active", then you will be shooted with many mails.
One such thing used to evade the security system is by inserting the text in an image thus to evade system that looks for matching pattern. The best way to stop spamming is to report to the service provider about it. Google having option by which you can report Google then they deal with it.
The reason for this post is that there is a statistics that 70 percent of mails transferred are spam.
P.S : The post is to create awareness and not to create any negative impact.
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