Wicked,
spam, or simply trash-worthy? How to deal with cunning spam.
Perhaps you’ve been busy wringing your wits about your next content or mail draft. Suddenly you get an email, that is tantamount to a mail threat asking for something--like crypto.
Then you ask, what if, your email account is hacked hence the spam? What to do in situations like this, when one is simply an ordinary user or netizen?
This is a tricky question indeed. But everybody must be aware of email attacks.
How one can feel when getting an unwanted email that’s more than spam but asks for something in return, with no obvious offer to amend their spam action- one can be pushed to a reflex action that sends SOS to the more knowledgeable ones.
When one goes online, one can bump into the unannounced, other “netters” who aim to make one’s netsurfing, emailing, news keep-upping, a difficult one. This happens especially if one is not technically equipped with online usage basics and dynamics.
Here are the basic truths one has to guard knowing when
one is online:
1. A computer can be exposed to others. A computer connected to the internet for real, cannot guarantee privacy. And one may not even be aware of this happening.
Even if emails, profiles, and data are uploaded and shared online or offline, and are guaranteed data privacy and confidentiality, nobody can really be assured of 100 percent protection when using the internet.
Even the strictest basic emails cannot guarantee absolute protection as they can be penetrated with spam or unwanted emails, too.
To relate, this writer’s mailbox has gotten once in a while, mail threats asking for crypto deposits.
The email content is
blunt saying it knows all aspects of one’s activity (an email can go directly
to spam by the way so you don’t easily notice it). The spam can give enough of a threat scare for an email account holder to take notice.
When prompted for help, technical experts would simply advise deleting a “spoof” email.
It was labeled as a spoof, even if it did not come as that, but a mail of a more hounding message from an anonymous address and sender. An IT expert can simply advise acting on it by simply deleting the email from one's mailbox.
2. Sometimes, unintentional clicks happen.
This can expose the computer to threats. Those
blinks and winks that are pressed in a hush can lead one to surprise wins, and
sites that do not only intend to spam but take one’s time but change valuable
settings as well.
So, the minute one notices some changes on one's computer or any out-of-the-usual variation to one's email settings, an individual user must retrace the footsteps of what caused such change right away. And when an IT expert is not available to help, it is best to retrace the steps that one has taken; look into new downloads, added apps, and exposure to blinking sites that sometimes appear out of nowhere, aiming to get visits or clicks.
Baits are not usually a nice way to surf into. Clickbaits hunger for site visits, not just product sales.
Thus, it is best to keep track of one’s online activity and to rethink internet usage.
After all, technology can be tapped not just for improving social media connections but for learning the ways and the means of many platforms that are abundant when going online.
Using the now indispensable gadgets that make our lifestyle modern and convenient, one can also learn how to be more secure when going online, to avoid being taken aback by the prospects of being spammed, spoofed, or faked by unscrupulous internet users.
3. Make internet and email time ideal.
The internet is a world full of information. But nobody really connects to help address solutions on internet integrity.
- When one does a solo flight on the internet, it helps that one visits trusted sites and pages that are official and free of dubious names.
- Even news media pages can give confusion. A lot have mushroomed of late, as eager newcomers in the industry. However, some good intentional media sites don't offer enough proper introductions or backgrounders for their media site's purpose and content policies. The rule of thumb is to rely on news providers that have a long history of serving news; with a team of practitioners dedicated to using their skills that cannot be outbested, and with enough integrity to earn the loyalty and trust of their readers.
- Email spam is not just a lost message in another receiver’s inbox. It is meant to distract, discontent, affect the certainty of security in another, and the user cannot always anticipate the receipt of such unless one is in constant track of one's digital activities, to get an idea of where spam and unwanted email/s, could be coming from.
It helps to stay "minimalist" on internet usage and reduce internet hours unless one has to use the net for work or official purposes.
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