My Anti-SPAM Policy

I NEVER send unsolicited emails, nor do I ever sell, rent or trade any emails or personal information EVER. I hate when it happens to me and I think it should never happen to anyone.

If people make it a point to never ever purchase anything from spam emails, it would take the money out of it for the spammers. If you are receiving a spam message, chances are that it is dishonest, more than ninety percent of spam emails are fraudulent. If you do order from one of those sites, you probably will not get what you ordered. Of those items actually shipped most are counterfeit. Most likely they will just sell your credit card information to third parties so they can committ credit card fraud and also steal your identity.

Do not use the ‘Opt-Out’ links on the emails unless you know for sure that it is a legitimate company. Spammers will often use that to verify that it is an active email and you may receive even more spam. You can use ‘Spam Filters’ or ‘Keyword Filters’ to help block some of the email to begin with. Contact your email provider for instructions on how to set the filters.

Be sure you use and keep up to date software for anti-virus, anti-adware, and a firewall.

I have compiled a list of government and non-profit agencies that you can report spam and internet fraud to.

Have a safe internet!

Investment Scams

The Security and Exchange Comminsion's Office of Internet Enforcement Complaint Center

Investment Related Scams Spam

can be forwarded directly to enforcement@sec.gov

Illegal prescriptions

Forward those emails to Food and Drug Administration webcomplaints@ora.fda.gov Or use this form http://www.fda.gov/oc/buyonline/buyonlineform.htm

Nigerian Advance Fee Fraud Spam

You receive an email claiming that someone has chosen you to share huge sums of money with if you will help him/her get the money to the US by giving them your account numbers to transfer it to or if you give them an advance fee.
Send these and online credit card fraud to the United States Secret Service by faxing them to (202) 406-5031. for more details go to: http://www.secretservice.gov/alert419.shtml

General Internet Fraud

The FBI has an Internet Fraud Complaint Center including Auction Fraud: http://www.ifccfbi.gov/index.asp
The FBI's Common Fraud Schemes Website

General Commercial Spam

The Federal Trade Commisions Spam Website, The FTC’s Spam Complaint Form
They can be forwarded to the FTC at spam@uce.gov

Information and Reporting Internet fraud

FirstGov.gov The U.S. Government’s Official Web Portal
Internet Crime Complaint Center - IC3

The Do Not Call Registry

http://www.ftc.gov/donotcall/

Identity Theft

FTC National Resource for Identity Theft
US Department of Justice Website on ID Theft
Social Security Administration Website on ID Theft

Phishing

Phishing is an email sent by a criminal pretending to be your bank or other financial institution, do NOT reply to these emails or use the links on these emails. The links and the email ‘From’ info. can be manipulated to appear as real when they are not. They can be reported to the FTC at spam@uce.gov.

For more information about phishing, go to FTC Phishing

Images

Images that seem innocent in emails may be wolves in sheeps clothing. They can contain harmful attachments and may have serial numbers attached that will show a spammer that your email is a valid address, so he can send you more spam.
Be careful opening email if you are unsure about it. Some email hosts like Yahoo! have an option to not allow images to be automatically opened, and can be toggled off when needed.

Links in Spam emails

Links in spam email often have links displayed in the status bar that are false. They have hidden codes that will tell the spammer who is clicking the link. Be careful not to click the links on spam email.

Laws Relating to Spam

spamlaws.com

Junk Mail Reduction Guide

Receiving Unwanted Junk Mail Through the Post Office?

Are you helping spammers?

You may be and not even know it. Those emails that you get from ‘friends’ that they send out as bulk mail to all of their friends are probably getting you on spam email lists. Most people send out bulk email on the ‘To’ line of their email. This gives everyone your ‘friend’ knows your email and everyone down the line that they foward the email to also gets your email address. A better way to send email is to use the ‘BCC’ line. BCC stands for Blind Carbon Copy. You can send the email to all of your friends and they cannot view other recipient’s addresses. Make sure you tell your friends about BCC so they don’t cause you to get more spam. . . By the way, all of those body organ theft, missing person emails and chain letters you get are fake. Don’t foward them, they just promote spam and they really annoy your friends.

Opt Out Prescreen

Opt Out of the credit offer lists sold by the major credit reporting agencies. optoutprescreen.com - You can opt out for five years or permanently. This will reduce much of your junk mail for credit and credit card offers. It can also reduce your risk of identity theft. Do you really want some unknown third party to have your personal private information?