A few ways to beat spam:
- Obviously, don't click on the links in spam messages. NEVER buy anything advertised in a spam message. Tell everyone you know to do the same... even your elderly neighbor who thinks he's getting a deal by purchasing "gener!c v!aGr@".
Hint: if the e-mail can't spell a product correctly, then something is suspicious... this includes offers to "refinac morttagges" and "curee ur deseases".
Unfortunately, as long as people buy the products advertised in spam messages, the spammers will make money.
- Complain to the advertised company or billing company. For example, porn sites need paying subscribers... and to get payments, they need a billing company. If enough people complain about the spam directly to the billing company, they could shut off the site's account.
However, I don't recommend visiting porn sites advertised in spam. If they're using spam to advertise, who knows what other nasties are on the site?
- We hear news stories about brilliant hackers who find security flaws in Windows and such. Why can't some of these people use their talents to make anti-spam software? Can't they get Russian servers to anti-spam the spammers?
--John
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