6 Steps To Save Your E-mail Address From Spammers

Here is some tips to save yourself from spammers

• When you forward an email, delete all of the other addresses that appear in the body of the message (at the top). You must click the "Forward" button first and then you will have full editing capabilities against the body and headers of the message. If you don't click "Forward" first, you won't be able to edit the message at all.

• When you send an email to more than one person, do not use the To: or Cc: fields for adding email addresses. Always use the Bcc: (blind carbon copy) field for listing the email addresses. This way the people you send the email to will only see their own email address. (Editor's note: Check your email Help file to learn how to use the BCC field.)

• Remove any "FW:" in the subject line. You can re-name the subject if you wish or even fix spelling.

• Click your Forward button from the email you are reading. Ever get those e-mails that you have to open 10 pages to read the one page with the information on it? By forwarding from the actual page you want someone to view, you stop them from having to open many emails just to see what you sent.

• Have you ever gotten an email that is a petition? It states a position and asks you to add your name and address and to forward it to 10 or 15 people or your entire address book. The email can be forwarded on and on and can collect thousands of names and email addresses. The completed petition is worth money to a professional spammer because of the wealth of valid names and email addresses contained therein. If you want to support the petition, send it as your own personal letter to the intended recipient. Your position may carry more weight as a personal letter than a laundry list of names and email address on a petition.

• Before you forward an Amber Alert, or a virus alert, check them out before you forward them. Most of them are junk mail that's been circling the net for years. Just about everything you receive in an email that is in question can be checked out at Snopes. Just go to http://www.snopes.com/.