By Eddy R.
04/6/99

"Here is the info you requested" , "This will make you rich!!!", "Free vacation", "Please help this child", "Forward this to as many people as you can", "Scroll all the way down and make a wish...it will come true!"

If you have an e-mail account then you are very likely to deal with junk e-mail in the future, that's if you haven't dealt with it already.

Junk e-mail besides making you mad, can pose a serious threat to your privacy. Fortunately there are ways to deal with junk e-mail, below are some suggestions.

• Never pass-on chain letters
  A lot of people fall in this one. I can't stress enough how important it is to ignore this type of e-mail. Chain letters besides being a hoax, do nothing but to collect peoples' e-mail addresses so that people like marketers can then sell them for a profit, the result? The result is that you'll get a lot more junk e-mail than you used to.

• Never reply to junk e-mail
  Most junk e-mail is designed to make you believe that you can remove yourself from its mailing list by replying to the e-mail. Replying to junk e-mail is a big NO, NO.

• Block unwanted e-mail
  Most e-mail accounts come with features that allow you to block unwanted e-mail, ISPs such as America Online provide their subscribers with such features, there is also filtering software that will allow you to accomplish such task.

There are many other ways you can stop junk e-mail, if you would like more information regarding this matter check the links under "Related Topics" and "From the Web".