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Spam Help Guide

 
       
Clark talked with a computer-savvy listener about how to avoid getting those pesky spam mails. The caller has three suggestions and says he has eliminated 85-90 percent of his spam mail using these three methods:  
       
1) Use two separate e-mail accounts. The first is your private account, which you only give out to your friends and those you trust. Your second account is your public account and is the one you use to register on sites and order goods online (the ways most spam is generated). For your public account, we suggest using one of the free e-mail services such as Yahoo or Hotmail.  
             
2) Register your e-mail address with the Direct Marketing Association's e-mail preference site, dma.org. By entering your e-mail addresses in the provided form, you are automatically taken off the lists of those marketers who are members of the association. This "online opt-out" lasts for one year and you can request to be notified by e-mail when your year is almost up.  
       
3) The third option mentioned was to register with Brightmail.com , but the site has since reached its quota of accounts and is no longer registering new e-mail addresses. However, the site is still filtering spam through its corporate relationships with certain ISPs. So if you have one of the following, you can contact your ISP to inquire how you can benefit: Earthlink, AT&T Worldnet, Visto, Hiwaay Net and Arkansas.net.  
       
For more spam-fighting resources, check out Spamcop's site.  
         



Excerpts From Clark's Shows: Spam Help Guide

May 01, 2008 -- Free computer protection, free mobile phone search service
Clark loves free services and has 2 new ones to share with you. The first comes from a company called HauteSecure.com, which protects your computer if you mistype a web address. Too often criminals will register bogus domains that may be just one letter off from a legitimate address. When you hit those fake sites, your computer may become infected with a keylogger program. So the free download at HauteSecure.com protects you by blocking sites that could threaten your computer.

The second service Clark has discovered is called ChaCha.com. This free mobile phone service allows you to ask a question by calling 800-2-CHA-CHA. You then receive a text with your answer. It's like Google for your cell phone. So far the results have been hit or miss. While it worked well during a pre-show meeting, it returned a wrong answer when Clark tried it out on air by asking, "Who won the 1964 World Series?" He received a dud answer via text message -- The New York Yankees -- in about half an hour. It was the St. Louis Cardinals who beat the Yanks in 7 games!


Jun 20, 2007 -- Penny stock spam e-mails
Penny stock e-mails are rampant these days. These types of e-mails are the fastest growing type of spam out there. These e-mails are all a part of the pump and dump strategy where a company or person will buy a bunch of the stock and send out these e-mails. They then hope that a fraction of the people that get the e-mail will invest in their chosen stock. Often the stock will jump for a short amount of time until it crashes back down. You are making somebody money when you are doing this but not yourself. Do not think that you are going to get rich quickly based on some insider tip, because you end up making someone else rich, and getting yourself hurt.


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