Spam Stop - Fighting spam email on the Internet
Spam email is a huge and continually growing problem, but there are measures you can take to help to stop spam, and reduce its impact on your inbox.
Stop Spam Emails
Protect your email address
Spam Stop’s free and easy to use custom code will protect your email address from being ‘harvested’ by software tools and robots.
Spam Stop - Advice and tools to help combat Spam.
Fight back against email harvesting
We have set a trap that fills the mailing lists of spammers with so many fake email addresses they become worthless.
Spam protection advice
What you can do to protect yourself and others against spam?
- Use the Spam Stop spam free email script to encode and protect your email addresses
- Use disposable email accounts for non trusted contacts.
- Pollute the email lists of known spammers.
- Using email blacklists.
- Reject mail based on SPF (Sender Policy Framework) rules.
- Report senders of spam emails
The truth is that the bulk of unsolicited email can be eliminated, but most people are either too lazy, or simply ignorant of what can be done, so the problem continues.
Your computer could be sending spam without your knowledge
Virus treats and worms
A great deal of unwanted email is generated by viruses (worms), which infect a computer and send emails out without the owner’s knowledge.
Ensure you always have up to date virus software installed, and perform a full scan of your computer every week.
Mail servers
If you run your own mail server, ensure that it is properly secured, and will not allow spammers to use it as a relay
Add SPF (Sender Policy Framework) rules to your site, so other mail server can rejected faked emails.
