Your email address
Often, when you sign up for
Internet service, your ISP will use your real name as a part of
your email address. Do not allow this if possible. If this
cannot be avoided, however, use a free email account, like
yahoo, hotmail, or msn instead of the email address that was
given to you by your ISP. Again, do not use your real name as
part of your email address, and do not fill out the profiles
that are offered. When setting up the account, it will often ask
for the name that you want to be displayed – don’t use your real
name.
Further protect your email address
by not responding to spam emails – no matter how mad they might
make you. Don’t reply, and don’t bother clicking the
‘unsubscribe’ or ‘remove’ links at the bottom of the email.
Clicking on these links really just lets the spammer know that
they’ve got a good email address – which they will sell to other
spammers. Instead, report the spam to your ISP, the senders ISP,
and to
spam@uce.gov . Let the experts handle spammers.
Security Checklist. Check if you have enough
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