Dude Meets World - No Control Over Spammers

Written by Deeroy on Thursday, 03 September 2009 01:31

One thing i hate most than spammers are people who sells email addresses to spammers. I am currently having a horrible time avoiding spam as i believe my acccount is in the list of one of the biggest spammers society, Malaysian spammers.With almost no regulation to monitor it here, i am left with no choice but to create a new account.Here is some tips b4 joining any mailing list.Make sure that the website has a privacy policy such as never to sell your email addresses and such.If they do display a Trust-E badge then you are assured that your emails and details are kept safe.An SSL certificate shows that your data is encrypted on the page where you are filling in your details.How you know that you are in a secured page? Just look at the URL, a secured page will begin with https:// instead of http:// . You will also see a lock sign at the bottom and beside the url display box depending on which browser you are using. Now back to my story, i receive yet another spam mail and i decide to find the root cause. I finally realised that I once signed up for Malaysia Pal an affiliate site that makes widrawing Paypal money a breeze. I guess that site is no longer active but definately didnt leave their mailing list behind and started with another money making scheme.Right now my email is being handed from one jerk to another.And to make matters worst..no opt out. Its hard to really ban the I.P coz most are actually shared and there is no telling who is who and u might actually have a friend on that I.P as well. Sigh..