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Spamis, unfortunately, an unavoidable side effect of having an email address.
This means that almost half of the letters that end up in our digital inboxes are unnecessary junk.
But how do spammers know where to send these unsolicited messages?
Ensure these filters are configured to automatically detect and segregate spam emails into a separate folder, he notes.
He also advises refraining from sharing email addresses publicly on forums, websites, or social media.
This helps to reduce your visibility to spammers and bots.
Oak additionally suggests periodically reviewing spam sources, blocking them, and reporting them to the email provider.
This provides ground truth labels and helps them improve the machine learning models that are detecting spam.
What might look like a harmless email could be the first step in a sophisticated attack.
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