Today, a number of spammers are increasing day by day. They all are coming with different reason and purposes. We should aware about them. I was asked continuously by my clients to write a post on if there any source to track the spammers.
These days the easiest way for spammers to do spam and scam with people is by using mailing lists of people. If I talk about myself, then I also getting daily 50+ emails from unknown senders daily in my spam box. Mainly questions which come in our mind after checking these type of spam emails are like:
- What We should do with that emails?
- How We can track that spam email senders?
- What We can do to stop these spammers?
- How Our privacy is at risk with that spammers?
- How they get our email addresses?
Don't worry in this post am going to reply your all of above questions.
How spammers get our email addresses?
Mostly these spammers are getting our email addresses from some sites where sometimes we have to fill our information or do signup to use their services. Later that sites sold our email addresses and personal data to other buyers for earning money. Then the people who buy our email addresses start sending their promotional emails.
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How We can track spam email sender?
Just open the email then locate 'Show Original' as shown in below image. Click on that option and it will show you the details of spammer from where they are sending emails.
Sometime person may be from our neighbours but pretend to be from some other countries then in this case we can easily trace their location by tracing the I.P of email sender. So when we click on 'Show original' it shows the details of I.P and SMTP Id of both receiver and sender. Well, here we have to just trace the I.P to find the exact location of email sender.
To trace I.P there are two options:
- By visiting cyber crime office with the I.P address.
- By using free I.P checker tools available on internet.
Click here to locate I.P of Sender. This tool is very useful to locate the IP address. To use this tools simply copy the IP of sender and paste on their page as shown in below image. It will give you the details of sender.
How our Privacy is at risk with these spammers?
Mostly these type of spammers use email marketing tools to send emails in bulk to many people at once. Even they also don't know personally the person whom they are sending emails. Their main purpose is generate leads and steal data of other people. After stealing the data they use them their different means like in marketing, decisions or some other purposes. No doubt our privacy is at risk with that spammers, because they may also do some illegal activities using our email or simply by including our email address in Cc or Bcc. We should be aware from these spammers.
How we stop them to doing Spam with us?
We should ignore that type of emails. Never reply to that emails. Never download any attached file from a email who are offering us large deals and amount for free. Don't be ever trap in their false wordings. Always use your mind before taking any steps.
You may also filter your emails, to receive these type of emails from the sender again and again. If the sender is using any email marketing tool, then there will be a unsubscription link at the last of message. You can unsubscribe that sender by clicking that unsubscribe link.
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