How do you protect an email and phone from spam?

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Hi, I am a mom. One thing that has bothered me for the longest time is for every one useful email in my email, there are 20 spam emails.

On my phone, many of my callers are spammers and one company I caught just before they tricked me into a student loan service that the government does for free. Not before I gave them my bank account info.:eek: I had to cancel my debit card. Other callers call want to sell me warranties on my car, or to tell me my accounts have a problem and I must give them all my info for them to fix it. They will try very hard to sound like legitimate sources. I believe the word for this is phishing. How are you protecting your mom and grandmother from such attacks? Are robo spammer apps for phones a good solution?
 
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Prevention is better than cure. Best practice is to limit how much information you put out online, that could be in the form of surveys/free competitions or even signing up for free ebooks/webinars and other workshops. A lot of these people could be selling/giving away your info and exposing you to unscrupulous people. Sometimes they do just randomly guess your number. For the email thing, your best bet is adding them to the junk folder and most email providers will allow you to filter the spam automatically for a particular email address.


Also never sign up or agree to anything when people call you on the phone. They could be from anywhere and up to no good. If it's good for you, then you can sign up for it on your own terms and in your own time, don't feel pressured or bad for turning them down. You can never tell 100% if something is a scam or not, but if you sign up for it using a reputation source then you stand a better chance.
 
For email, please block the source from where you receive it. For the phone, I believe there is a system built in to protect you from unknown callers calling you. Otherwise, if someone calls you promoting something, just tell him that you are not interested ( don't be kind to them) or hang up.
 
Most likely filled out something called a CPA offer and your information got sold onto other companies and the cycle continues...

How to protect yourself; don't use your real email and phone for anything besides ecommerce orders and perhaps occasional website accounts.

Out of curiosity; how did you find out about blackhatworld?
 
Easiest and cheapest way - just use a fake name and number generator. Generally they won't ask you to verify anything via phone so you should be good to go.
As for the email, make a seperate email for spammy stuff or anything you're unsure of or use a masking / forwarding service.
 
DunderMannen said:
Most likely filled out something called a CPA offer and your information got sold onto other companies and the cycle continues...

How to protect yourself; don't use your real email and phone for anything besides ecommerce orders and perhaps occasional website accounts.

Out of curiosity; how did you find out about blackhatworld?
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I had cyber security issues that led me here. How did you find out about it? How many phones do you have? So we can't use our phone, that we pay so much for, or our email? That doesn't sound like a very good solution to me, just saying. Robokiller is kind of expensive. Would reformatting the phone to the android unlock that I read about get rid of robocalls and be free? I'm a mom. I want to do cybersecurity for free or cheap and robokiller is sure, $14.99 this year but next year they could automatically deduct $40 and if i can do this free, i would like to find out how.
 
Most cell phone carriers have their own service for "blocking" these robo calls. Soon the amount of robo calls will outnumber the amount of real phone calls made so they are of course working on improving it. For me, on Verizon, the calls still come through but they are marked as "potential spam." Now a real problem is the SMS spam that's going on. One solution, even though it's a pain in the ass, is to get a new phone number :D. Besides that just stop answering calls from unknown numbers.
 
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Most cell phone carriers have their own service for "blocking" these robo calls. Soon the amount of robo calls will outnumber the amount of real phone calls made so they are of course working on improving it. For me, on Verizon, the calls still come through but they are marked as "potential spam." Now a real problem is the SMS spam that's going on. One solution, even though it's a pain in the ass, is to get a new phone number :D. Besides that just stop answering calls from unknown numbers.
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The At&T said they have call protect on my phone. It doesn't help. They would sell me advanced for $3.99 a month but he said he tried everything and the only thing that helped him was to get a new phone number, which is $35.00. At that point can I not reformat my phone for free?
 
It's better to not respond and don't disclose your information.
 
Always keep a secondary mail to sign up for all trash.
 
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