How to finally get rid of spam in your mailbox ?

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You still receive too many junk mails in your mailbox&nbsp ;? This is not inevitable. Beyond the filters integrated into your mail client/app, or even services like Gmail and Outlook, there are solutions to stop giving your real email address as soon as a request to create an account, or other registration on a questionable site.

Beyond that, it is probably advisable to check whether your email address is not part of a data leak if you receive too many of these types of messages. In this tutorial, we therefore propose to go over the issue with the general steps to get rid of this real scourge.

Mail, Gmail, Outlook, Spark… most applications serving as a client for your email address have a function to report unwanted messages. These will then go directly to a Spam folder separate from the rest. A folder that will be automatically emptied periodically according to your settings. The operation of this option requires a learning phase.

Indeed, it is not just a matter of blocking addresses, but also keywords and other characteristics of these messages – all depending on the mailing lists on which your email address ended up. In principle, as soon as you receive spam, reporting the message as such feeds this learning and makes the filter more precise.

It is therefore necessary to systematically report Spam as such and avoid archiving or deleting it instead. Note also that in some cases these messages include a link to exit the sender's mailing list. While it is advisable to be wary of links in this type of message, it is preferable to unsubscribe carefully, when possible, from these lists.

To limit the arrival of Spam, it is advisable to not give out your real email address too often, especially on potentially malicious sites. Giving your real email address remains the norm for services like Amazon, Fnac, and other top sites that may later give you important information.

But for others, platforms like 10minutemail.com allow you to have a disposable email address just for the time of registration. These sites are free. To use 10minutemail.com it's very simple (other similar sites exist with a more or less identical procedure:

• Go to 10minutemail.com.
• You immediately have a random email address for 10 minutes – the page shows you its inbox directly.
• Copy this address and use it to register without closing 10minutemail.com(you will lose this temporary address).
• In case of confirmation code, return to the 10minutemail.com tab and click on the email to confirm the service.
• If this message is slow to arrive, a button on 10minutemail allows you to < strong>extend the existence of your address for an additional 10 minutes.

Please note: once the tab is closed, this email address will be deleted without possibility of recovery. This is where all the unwanted messages from the site on which you have just registered will land.

An alternative exists on iPhone, provided you have an iCloud+/Apple One subscription: Private Relay. When you register on a site, you can hide your real address behind a more random address. Which you can delete in case of abuse later in your settings.

This advice does not reduce the number of spam in itself. However, it will potentially explain a sudden increase in the reception of unwanted messages.

Data leaks are frequent, and broadcast your email address, and potentially your passwords, which poses a real risk to your personal data. A site run by researchers, HaveIBeenPwned.com.

The site is 100% reliable and respectful of your data. Simply enter your email address to check for leaks.

If so, you still have options:

• Buy an antivirus suite like Bitdefender that offers a very effective spam filter but also a password manager.
• Create a second “serious” email address, which you never give out anywhere except to your trusted contacts.
• Unsubscribe as much as possible from mailing lists that have your – address some clients like Spark offer an automated function for this.

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