| "What is junk mail?" is an often asked question. Have | | | | To avoid this type of spam open the email and go to |
| you ever received mail from unknown sources? Or | | | | the bottom. Usually they offer subscribers an option to |
| found mail in your spam folder that you have | | | | unsubscribe. Click on it and a message will prompt you |
| absolutely no idea who it was from? You may have | | | | that you will no longer be receiving mail from that |
| been a victim of junk mail. Junk mail is actually mail sent | | | | particular source. |
| to you from unknown internet sources or even | | | | Unwanted spam with an unknown source |
| unknown contacts. Usually these messages have no | | | | You may have had the experience of receiving mail |
| meaning and are usually stored in the spam folder. | | | | from companies or websites you know you've never |
| Knowing the types of junk mail out there will help you | | | | been involved with. Getting rid of such spam is quite |
| fight it. | | | | difficult as the simple option of unsubscribing may have |
| Junk mail is usually categorized using the following | | | | negative results so the best thing to do would be to |
| criteria unwanted spam with a known source, | | | | not open it at all and mark it as spam. |
| unwanted spam with an unknown source and email | | | | Email forwards |
| forwards. | | | | Something of this sort may be childish like the letter |
| Unwanted spam with a known source | | | | chains that ask you to forward the message too or |
| This may have happened when you signed yourself | | | | something unfortunate might happen. This may come |
| up for newsletters concerning one topic or the other. | | | | from a person close to you so you may simply |
| Or it may even be the new software you registered | | | | confront them and ask them not to send you anymore |
| for. As much as you might have been doing this | | | | spam. Related answers to what is junk mail can be |
| innocently, your email address you filled in will now be | | | | found using search engines like Google. |
| available to them for use and thus the unwanted mail. | | | | |