Spammers continue to work because there continues to be profit in it. People continue to respond and purchase products and services produced by Spammers. It doesn?t take a lot to make a profit because spamming lists of hundreds of thousands of potential email addresses costs next to nothing. Most of these SPAMMERS are located in third-world, African or Eastern European countries which have little to no monitoring, ethics or laws concerning SPAM. SPAM has recently made another insurgence.

Despite the compounded efforts of ISP companies, hosting and email service providers and other IT companies that create and maintain spam, email and domain black lists, the Spammers continue to create new ways to circumvent these filters and blacklists. As do most hosting service providers, ArcSource maintains up-to-date lists of known spammers, blacklisted domains and email addresses and filters. However, there is no fool-proof way to stop all of the spam.

Several ways you can help keep spam from your inbox: Value your email address as if it?s part of your identity. Know that when you use it, it will be seen by others. If you?re going to sign up for contests or newsletters, use either an email alias that forwards to your real email address, or create a disposable email address (from hotmail or yahoo) that you don?t mind tossing once spam becomes over-whelming. For your business, try not to use email address like ?info@mycompany.com? or ?receptionist@mycompany.com?.

These email addresses are very likely to get spammed. Refrain from publishing your email address all over the web or even your own web site. Web robots continually crawl the internet, looking for a match string of characters that look like email addresses, puts these addresses in a database that get sold and resold to all kinds of marketers. Once your email address is out there, you won?t be able to stem the tide. Try not to get on those lists in the first place.