Why does some of my unblocked e-mail go to bulk instead of the in box?
- March 1st, 2010
- Posted in Spam & Bulk Mail
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Until several months ago I seldom received bulk mail. Then, all of a sudden I started to get hundreds of tricky, phony phrases in the address field of incoming mail. Some of these e-mails are from companies seeking new clients. At the same time, a number of legitimate addresses stopped appearing in either Inbox or Bulk mail. How does this happen?
The anti-spam experts say we are seeing far more spam mails now than ever before. And the spammers are becoming more clever about getting their spam mails past the spam filters. That’s why more spam is making it to the Inbox instead of going straight to the Bulk/Spam folder, and it is also why some good mails are ending up in the Bulk/Spam folder. There are a few basic things we can all do to keep spam to a minimum…
1. Spam mails that go straight to the Bulk/Spam folder should not be touched. You can empty that folder any time you want, but never NEVER open spam mails. DON’T try to unsubscribe from anything and DON’T click any links in those mails. The most common reason for getting so much spam is the simple act of opening one or more of them. DON’T open them!
2. Spam mails that land in the Inbox should be marked as Spam. Doing so helps to train the spam filter about what mails you don’t want to see, and it also moves those spam mails to the Bulk/Spam folder and adds their addresses to the Blocked list. (Blocking an address prevents mails from being received from that address in the future.)
3. Any email that you are the least bit suspicious about should be deleted immediately. Don’t let curiosity get the better of you. Simply opening a spam email out of curiosity could alert the spammers that you have an active email address (they probably didn’t know it before), to which they will undoubtedly send TONS of spam mail in the future. Open emails ONLY from people you know and trust.