How to Protect your Privacy and Avoid Spam Scams

•Do not respond to suspicious spammed emails. A response only confirms the accuracy of your email address, and may result in even more messages filling up your In-box.

•If you are suspicious, do not click on the link asking to be taken off the sender’s list, as the senders often use that as a ploy to confirm the recipient’s address, resulting in even more spammed email.

•Never submit your credit card details or other personal information to non-secure Web sites (there should be a locked padlock icon that appears in yellow, or in a yellow box, on the bottom bar of the order form Web browser).

•Use spam filtering or spam blocking software.

•Do not send your email address through chat rooms, instant message services or Internet bulletin boards and newsgroups.

•Do not give out your primary email address for online registration or on e-commerce sites. Have another free email address to use more publicly.

•Do not forward chain email. This special type of email is considered spam. It is unsolicited, intrusive and may clog up email servers and slow down Internet traffic.

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