Email spamming refers to sending email to many users who do not want to receive them, resulted on flooding the Internet with unwanted junk emails. Most spam mail is
- unsolicited commercial advertising on dubious products,
- get-rich-quick schemes
- pornography material,
- quasi-legal services,
- etc,
Not all unsolicited email is spam. For example, if you participated in a survey or entered a contest online, subscribed an online magazine, or just included your electronic mail address on a product registration card, there is a good chance that you will be hearing from the sponsoring organization or vendor. Usually in these cases you can send in a request not to receive further messages. However, if you know you never "opt-in" in the first place, you should not choose the "opt-out" methods as this will reassuring the spammer that spam did reach the target. Simply delete the message and forget it altogether could help defeat the purpose of the spammer.
More information
- FAQs on Spam - Office of the Telecommunications Authority, Hong Kong
- Fight Spam on the Internet!
- Netizens Against Gratuitous Spamming (NAGS)
- Stop Spam FAQ
- The Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email (CAUCE)
- Back to our Spam Mail web site