Many of you love to send messages and emails to your friends and family because it is the most personal method to say stay in touch with them instead of posting social feeds on facebook or other social networks when family matters. But to protect your email address from spammers and scammers, you should follow these simple steps to better protect your email privacy. So you can enjoy all this social fun without any problem. Let’s look at the tips below to protect your email privacy:
1). Choose a Strong Password
While using many social networking sites and applications, we provide our email address at all times and this makes your information visible to the public and protects your email from misuse, the only method is your password. If you use a password that is too weak and someone guesses it, then he or she has complete control over your email account. So to protect your account use a strong password that is also easy for you to remember or keep in a safe place. Strong passwords are used especially if you are using a web based email provider like Gmail or Yahoo mail and many others.
2). Protect Your Email Address
Whenever you message anyone, you also give them your email address, but you don’t need to give it out to the world. So for protection, don’t include your email address in comments on any blog or social media site. Spammers and Scammers scrape pages all the time looking for new victims. So next time you want to perform any activity on the web, please think about this.
3). Beware of public computers (cafe)
Be careful when checking your email address on a public computer such as an Internet cafe, make sure you have logged out and cleared cache before leaving. Failure to do so will leave a trail that could give future users too much information about you. It’s like giving him the opportunity to gain access to your account.
4). Don’t Be Fooled By Scams
Because we receive a lot of emails on our accounts these days from various sources like social network notifications and updates. But sometimes you may receive an email like “Your email provider has sent you a notification about a security breach, with a link to reset your password” Do not click on that link! It’s a scam, designed to steal your email account password. If you are unsure about the email you received, you should visit the provider’s site before clicking on the email link.
5). Use Encryption To Protect Files
Sometimes you just need to send sensitive information via email. To keep your data safe, save it as a document and use the word processing application’s built-in encryption, or save the document in an encrypted ZIP file. Then share your password with the recipient separately. You can use software to encrypt your files, try free encryption software like Locked.
