Spam—the annoying, most irritable, thing to come across the cyber world. It has made email into an unreliable Internet tool with their unwanted junk messages causing us to miss the actual important ones, and sometimes even jeopardizing our computers. But, aside from all the minor irritable issues, are you aware of what the serious ones that spamming could cause? Spam mails have been the cause of lost money worldwide, identity theft, loss of Internet performance, and much more.
Identity theft:
Spammers usually send messages as other companies to make it appear as if the message is of importance. Although this may seem as an easy fix (just ignore and delete them, right?) these emails can, sometimes, carry malicious viruses or malware hidden in them, which can help them get access to personal information you may have saved in your hard drive.
Another issue this brings is that, because spammers are going through as other companies, it can cost the actual company a lot of time and money to try and clean out all the spam messages, which brings me to…
Expenses:
Receivers of these annoying messages end up paying more money for getting the spam than the spammers do to actually send them. In addition, these spammers also put fake return addresses on their emails so that they don’t have to deal with the costs of receiving responses from people who message them back to get off the list.
Spam can also cause your mail server to crash and can fill up your hard drive, which in then end jeopardizes your computer in its entirety causing you to have to spend more money to fix, or clean out, your hard drive.
TOO Much Spam:
The most annoying part about these spam emails is that, even though you can sometimes email them back with a “REMOVE†message to get off a list, it can become difficult and almost impossible to go through every single message that is being sent.
Simply because your Internet provider may have enforced methods to reduce spam, it doesn’t necessarily mean that your computer has all the protection it needs. It is important to constantly change and maintain spam protection schemes, even though this can be more expensive.
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