The Work at Home Scam Blog

Fighting Spam

There is no shortage of scammers out there who want your money. But there are just as many, if not more, who are dying for your email address.

Spam comes in many forms, about many subjects. A substantial amount of it is trying to sell prescription drugs and other such spam-typical stuff. But there’s also plenty of it pertaining to work at home jobs. Please don’t give anyone who sends you unsolicited email the time of day. If they had something wonderful to offer, they wouldn’t have to use illegal and unethical means to get people’s attention.

There are plenty of methods available to block spam. Many virus scanners come packaged with spam blocking software. My ISP includes it with my Internet service so that most of it never even reaches my inbox. If you get mail from your website, there should be measures in place from your hosting provider that you can utilize to reduce spam.

If you still have spam getting through, check out SpamCop.net. It takes the guesswork out of reporting spam. You can register for free, and then when you get spam you can put the headers and body of the message into a form on their site. They then put together a report and send it to everyone that needs to know about it for you.