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Tips
- Get two email accounts, one for
business and one for personal use. Only give out your
personal address to family and friends to help reduce
unwanted emails (otherwise known as "spam").
A more comprehensive approach would be to use a
service such as Spamex.
- Try to memorize your password rather
than writing it down. Use an acronym of a
favorite saying or something that as true about you
such as I Don't Like Driving In The Snow password =
idldits. You can then take that password and
substitute some numbers for letters such as: id1dit5.
Now that's a good a password!
- Don't give the password to your
e-mail
service or to anyone that you don't know or trust.
Try to avoid using services that do not allow you to
change your password, but rather set it for you.
- Don't download any attachments from
people you don't know, or from people you don't trust.
- Scan attachments with a virus program
before downloading them, even if they come
from a friend. Check our Virus
Page for recommendations.
- Try to avoid sending private or
secret
information through e-mail.
- If you absolutely have to send
private or secret information through e-mail, make sure
you encrypt it first.
- Don't spam people, you could get into
trouble with your ISP and have your account
terminated. In fact, this is becoming common practice as
more services implement no-spam policies.
- If you don't like getting ads in your
e-mail, choose to opt out of all unnecessary mailing
lists. You should know however that Opt-Out
still keeps a cookie on your machine. You might
want to also look at our
Privacy
Faq.
- Check HoaxBusters.org
or our Alerts page to determine whether or not an
e-mail is a hoax or a scam. You can get to our
Alerts page by clicking on Alerts to the left.
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