Spam tips for High Speed Internet Service in Blair/Wayne/Fort Calhoun/Arlington/Nebraska/NE

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1. Don´t give your email address to the whole world

Limit who you allow access to your email address. Do not give out your email address to unknown or unfamiliar websites. If your email address is not required in an online transaction, do not give it to them. The more places that you submit your email address, the greater the chance it will end up on a spammers list. Treat your email address like your phone number. Take care of your American Broadband email address and your Internet Service Provider will take care of you.

2. Create a spare email address to give to unknown sources

Create a free email account with Yahoo or Hotmail and use that one only for online transactions and purchases or to get information from a source you are not familiar with. That way, you can check it only when you are looking for receipts or feedback from a website where it was submitted. Expect SPAM to show up in that account, but it can always be ignored.

3. Never reply to SPAM messages

If you do, the sender of the SPAM knows they have hit a live account and the SPAM frequency and quantity will increase. Spammers send out best guess dictionary attacks to mail servers not knowing if the SPAM will even reach any or all of the recipients. If you reply or somehow let them know that it indeed ended up in your Inbox, the game is over. They now have your number.

4. Don´t fall for the unsubscribe trap

Some SPAM messages come with a link or some unsubscribe instructions. If you do this, you will get the same results as number three states above. SPAM is sent out by a program on a server, not someone hitting the send button thousands of times. If you do get SPAM, quietly delete it. Spammers cannot hear you hitting the delete button.

5. Use a trustworthy SPAM filtering service

There are many kinds of SPAM blockers on the market, but American Broadband/ABB uses Postini for all of its High Speed Internet Subscribers in Nebraska/NE because they feel it is the best. Not only does Postini reduce SPAM messages significantly, it also blocks email-borne viruses from reaching your Inbox. We call our Postini service E-Shield. Even though this service will help keep SPAM down to a minimum, your own common sense is your best defense.

For more information on preventing SPAM and getting high speed internet data access in Nebraska, please call toll free 1-888-262-2661 or visit us at www.abbnebraska.com