We cannot remind others enough about the tips below. We see it everyday… a computer gets trashed by someone not following the 3 cardinal rules of email.
1. Don’t open e-mails from people you don’t know.
2. Don’t open e-mail attachments from people you don’t know.
3. Beware of e-mail attachments from people you do know.
Read on for more great Email tips:
Don’t pass on “chain letters” or forwards, at least not messages that have no informative value. It may seem harmless, and I’m not really sure what people’s motives behind starting them are, but the end result is a lot of useless Internet traffic which has to be processed before real e-mails and requests for web pages can be processed. It seems so innocent, how could forwarding one little chain letter hurt anything? Don’t forget there are millions of other people around the world doing the same thing, all that useless traffic adds up. Not to mention that they’re annoying and personally I question a person’s reliability if they forward me bad news or even worse, a message that just says I’ll have bad luck if I don’t pass it on. I have broken many chain letters in my time, and I assure you no ghost is going to kill you, and you’re not going to have bad luck, so break the cycle and don’t forward spam.
Trash those generic e-mails from random foreign guy, who needs an American citizen to set him up a bank account in the US for whatever contrived reason, and will split the millions he saves by doing this with you, but somewhere along the line needs you to wire him a large cash sum. You’re not investing in your future, you’re giving your money to a con artist.
