Hi, I'm Luca and I am a student in year 10 at St. Francis Xavier's College in Woolton, Liverpool. One of the subjects I am currently studying at school is ICT, and I am going to share my knowledge and understanding of this subject with everyone in a series of blogs. In this particular blog, I will be discussing spam. I hope that you enjoy this blog, and come away learning something new which you can hopefully pass on to someone else.
What is Spam
Spam is when a company tries to sell people their products by sending lots of emails or texts to them when they do not want the company to do so.
Many ISP email packages offer services to users such as 'spam filters' that try to prevent these emails from getting through to your inbox, however it is a difficult process trying to separate spam from your wanted mail. Your email service may have a mailbox called either 'junk' or 'bulk' which will contain all of your spam mail. You will then have to check it to see whether some of your real mail has been accidently caught by the filters.
It is estimated that 80%-90% of the emails on the internet are spam.
How to Avoid it
To avoid spam, you should try to avoid giving people your email or mobile number, as when you give either of these pieces of information to companies, you are now part of their automatic system which means that they will keep sending you emails or texts as they know that these pieces of information are genuine and do exist.
Also, if you get an unwanted email or text off a company, do not reply to it as this lets that company know that your email or phone number exists, which means they will keep on sending you emails or texts.
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