Sunday, February 8, 2009

Spamming: Potential Risk Of Email Marketing

Spamming: Potential Risk Of Email Marketing

The biggest problematic issues sustaining in the field of Email Marketing is Spam or unsolicited mails. These spams are significantly annoying and totally unwanted in your inbox. However, what appears as a much bigger problem here is the fact that they are a threat to email privacy norms. They are basically, commercial advertisements that keep floating throughout the web, with many prints of the same message.

According to several studies, it has been proved that spamming has occurred as the most significant reason for the breakdown of Email marketing’s popularity. Spamming is the unwanted utilization of your email for delivering unsolicited emails. Spammers send millions of mails in a day with a hope that at least one third of them would get clicked and they would get successful in attaining their click targets. Spammers manage to collect to countless email ids from various sources to maintain a strong database and spam mails to them. The wide use of these techniques has reached to such an epitome that most of the inboxes remain overloaded with these spam emails today. The unrestrained practice of spamming has greatly affected email marketing in an adverse manner. Nowadays, people strictly refrain themselves from reading these promotional mails and take them as sheer wastage of time.
Moreover, they often delete such mails from their inbox even without clicking on them for once as they are apprehensive that they might infect their pc with a virus. Spam is an unauthentic email marketing kind. In fact, to many of us, it is surely a useless and inefficient activity used as an advertising tool as we all detest it a never even read it. Nowadays, we thankfully, are blessed with a good number of anti-spam programs that are specifically designed to detect and filter out spam letters before they get placed into Inbox. And even if one or two spam messages manage to squeeze through all such filters, people usually never bother to open it and rather delete it immediately. In fact, there is one more thing that demands equal attention- Cookies! Cookies are basically files that are meant to make easier for you to work with forums, blogs and other Internet resources where the authorization is required. However, they can also be used by unauthorized sources to filch your login information.

Hence, in order stay away with all such spam attacks, the best way is to maintain Internet hygiene. Spammers and Internet criminals usually target careless victims. Ensure to have spam filtering options on mail servers or in your e-mail client. Moreover, it is important for you to know that nowadays viruses can affix themselves to outgoing messages without the sender being aware. Hence, avoid opening any attachment in the mail that you received from your friend or trusted correspondent and check it using anti-virus program. Acknowledge the fact that the absolute security of your private and confidential information and data stored on the computer can be guaranteed if you are ready to follow some basic rules and take technically planned initiatives to securely protect your computer and your privacy.

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