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Reduce Email Spam by Changing your Name

Written by Amit Bhawani on Sunday, 31 August 20085 Comments
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If you are a email use who gets huge amount of SPAM regularly then its time you need to find out of the most important reason behind it. If you have read the title of the post it clearly indicates one of the best solution for controlling SPAM which is delivered to your email address.

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According to a latest report the spammers start spamming people using mailing lists and these generally are hosted on Alphabetical formats because of which the email address starting with ‘A’ would get 15% more email spams when compared to the spams recieved by emails started with the letter ‘Z’. This is the reason i was recommending you to change your names if you need a better email box.

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Its also recommended to use a ‘DOT’ or ‘Underscore’ in your email name because this can also add some less chances of email spams which are sent on dictionary attack.Try out with 2 new emails starting with ‘A’ & ‘Z’ and check out which gets more SPAM.

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5 Comments »

  • Amar said:

    Thanks for this one..

    i would try to implement it..

    i get around 1000 spams on my yahoo mail..

    HOpe this works for me

    THanks

    - 1 September 2008 at 2:18 pm
  • Jo said:

    My surname starts with V so I should consider myself lucky, I get at least one or two Nigerian letters per day.

    - 2 September 2008 at 3:52 am
  • Sharat Jaswal said:

    Reading your post, the only thing creeping in my mind was; how much spam will Aaron receive! Probably the only name starting with Aa!

    Even though my name starts with S, i am pretty uncomfortable with the amount of SPAM i am getting. It’s a difficult image to shake knowing you are having worse time ten me with Spams

    - 4 September 2008 at 6:17 am
  • Amit Bhawani (author) said:

    All my emails also start with A, hence you can expect how much iam spammed too :(

    - 4 September 2008 at 6:19 am
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    - 7 September 2008 at 8:44 am

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