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About SPAM
E-mail spam, also known as unsolicited bulk email (UBE) or unsolicited commercial email (UCE), is the practice of sending unwanted e-mail messages, frequently with commercial content, in large quantities to an indiscriminate set of recipients.

Spam in e-mail started to become a problem when the Internet was opened up to the general public in the mid-1990s. It grew exponentially over the following years, and today comprises some 80 to 85% of all the email in the world, by conservative estimate; some sources go as high as 95%.

Pressure to make e-mail spam illegal has been successful in some jurisdictions, but less so in others. Spammers take advantage of this fact, and frequently outsource parts of their operations to countries where spamming will not get them into legal trouble.

Increasingly, e-mail spam today is sent via "zombie networks", networks of virus- or worm-infected personal computers in homes and offices around the globe; many modern worms install a backdoor which allows the spammer access to the computer. At the same time, it is becoming clear that malware authors, spammers, and phishers are learning from each other, and possibly forming various kinds of partnerships.

E-mail is an extremely cheap mass medium, and professional spammers have automated their processes to a high extent. Thus, spamming can be very profitable even at what would otherwise be considered extremely low response rates.

An industry of e-mail address harvesting is dedicated to collecting email addresses and selling compiled databases. Millions of email addresses can be cheaply purchased.

How to combat it

There are many ways in which to combat and remove SPAM from your inbox.

Never allow your email address to be shown on a forum. Search engines will index you and the SPAM bots will trawl through the search engines harvesting emails addresses.

If you have a website, do not publicise your email address on it. If you do, then make sure your email address is actually an image. SPAM Bots can not read images.

Never reply to SPAM email by clicking on the unsubscribe link. This tells the SPAMMER that your email address is "live".

Try not to subscribe to many free newsletters. Many of these companies sell off the lists of email addresses.

Do not have a "Catch All" email account otherwise you will receieve email such as "jvfjsdff@yourdomain" instead of "yourname@yourdomain".

In the event that none of the above have helped your SPAM problems then we can help with a success rate of 99.9% SPAM removal. The process only takes 20 minutes to setup our servers. There is no software needed to be installed on your computer. Everything is monitored by our staff in house. If you would like to talk to a member of our team then please do not hesitate to contact us on 01689 875 777.