The answer is simple : you can’t. Spammers get your email address easily like I wrote in this post, so it is pretty hard to stop them sending you emails. Once your email address got on their list, you will receive every day more and more spam because fraudsters exchange email lists.

The best way for you to stop the email spam is to get a new email address and try to not put it on the web because it will be indexed by search engines and it will be added to the spam list. Also don’t try to unsubscribe to any spam email that you received because this action will let the fraudsters known that your address is alive and they will continue to send spam messages.

Bottom line: You can’t stop receiving scam emails because fraudsters eventually will get your email. But you can do a few simple things to try to stop them:
-keep your email private
-don’t share it to anyone
-make a second e-mail address that you’ll use to subscribe to sites and to post ads

Be safe.

Hard question for all that don’t know how to see the email headers. The purpose of this post is to show you and learn you what are the email headers. Email headers are lines that are attached to any email message you received and all email clients have them. For the public eye the headers are lines like: To, From, Date, and Subject but if you look close to most of the email clients you will find more details.

To show you how to see the rest of the headers I had done 2 email accounts: one with gmail and one with yahoo. (I chose this 2 because are some of the best providers of free email and also many of the people use it.)

Gmail

Yahoo

As you see in this picture (by the way I’m sorry because the quality of the pictures isn’t so good) from headers you can see if the message you have just received is spam or not or if is fake. If you want to track the original sender of the email you just need to pay attention to the headers. The easiest way for finding the original sender is by looking for the X-Originating-IP header, this header is important since it tells you the IP Address of the computer that had sent the email. If you can not find the X-Originating-IP header then you will have to sift through the Received headers to find the sender’s ip.

If you want to make a complaint for spam/scam/fraud through email just remember to include all the headers of the email along with an attached copy when filling a complaint. I hope this will help somebody.

Be safe

Requirements for the tool to work:
- latest yahoo messenger version YM 9.0
- a good connection to internet
- version Framework .net 3.5
Features:
- no need of multiple yahoo accounts
- no need of proxy
- no need of servers
- no need of hosting
- send IMs to an entire list
- doesn’t matter if the user is online or offline, he will receive your mass message.
Here is a picture of the tool:

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After such days with e-mail full of unwanted messages you are asking yourself this simple question: how did they get my email? Now I’ll try to present some of the resources how they get your e-mail:
1. your e-mail address can be generated. The internet is a bigger resource and you can get for free or buy programs or software that can generate e-mail address.
2. your e-mail can be crawled. Like search engines which crawl the web for new content every second, there are also programs or spiders built in this purpose: to check the web for your e-mail address.
3. your e-mail can be bought. Yes can be bought. Just yesterday I saw someone on a forum who tried to sell a list of subscribers from this website.
4. your e-mail can be taken from another account. Let me explain you. You have a friend and you talk with him through instant messaging. If his account get’s hacked, all the e-mail addresses from his account will be spammed for sure.
5. if the bad guys hack or steal a database site and your e-mail is there then you will have a problem.
6. your e-mail can be hacked. Yes is right. Fraudsters have programs that try brute force to discover/crack your password, so my advise is to use strong passwords like something241@#! not like myname 1234567 or anything like that.
7.e-mail marketing or spam. If you subscribe to a newsletter, that webmaster can and maybe will sell some space in his newsletter to another webmaster which want to promote his service/product.

Those 7 ways to get your e-mail make your life harder. Maybe I forgot some of the methods to show you, but I will complete this post in a few days after a good research. Remember that your e-mail account is the easiest method to get to you, even is fraud scam or bulk email or newsletter, because all have the same purpose : to determine you to do something.

Be safe.

First thing, when you get this kind of e-mail, is to delete it. If you open it the chances to be a victim of email fraud are growing. If you opened the spam message, you will read a great/good offer that doesn’t exist. Next step is to look at the sender details. First, you will see a legitimate e-mail sender, but if you look at the headers of the e-mail you can see an ip or hostname that hasn’t no link with the legitimate company/person. If you have discovered a fake ip the problem is solved: IT IS A FRAUD ATTEMPT.

70% of the scams that are online have a single purpose and that is to steal your bank account information and your credit card or debit card information. When you receive e-mails which are asking you to reveal personal  information, please report it. You don’t know how or where? Read here . After you report the fraud attempt, delete the message. Always you must remember that companies like PayPal or banks DON’T ASK YOU PERSONAL INFORMATION LIKE YOUR ACCOUNT/CREDIT CARD/DEBIT CARD INFORMATION.

I hope this information is usefull for all the people who are reading.