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GET FREEBIES---AVOID SPAM

Sometimes when you sign up for free offers, you can get more than you bargained for like I already stated. Although most of the sites that I refer you to are unlikely to cause you to receive unwanted email, sometimes you just cant avoid it. The downside to this is that it will land you on unwanted mailing lists.

If, like me, you already get too much spam in your inbox, I have some tips that can help you avoid the hassle all together.

Become hard to find.
This is probably the single best and most effective method of warding off the spammers. If you don't give out your primary email address except to trusted friends etc. and organizations you can keep a nice clean mailbox.
The best way to do this is to sign for the free online mail service providers like hotmail and yahoo. You can even get disposable email addresses that disappear on their own. Use these addresses when you think you may be exposed to a junk emailer.

When you do start getting too much spam to any of the free accounts just cancel it and get another one. You should also use a disposable account if you post messages to the Internet forums just to be sure. Spammers often use software that combs newsgroups for email addresses.

Just Say NO to MLMs.
There may be a few legitimate multilevel marketing companies out there, but there are many that are nothing but some of then are nothing but schemes. In my opinion these schemes are one of the biggest nuisances on the Net. If these people manage to get your email address and think that you may be enough of a sucker to fall for their big offers, you get unending junk email.

The best way to avoid these jokers is by learning to recognize them when their emails arrive. If you come to a web page that is one big sign in a large font that tells you about this great deal, avoid it and dont click it at all. Unfortunately many of these appear on many different freebie websites. If it looks like and MLM, if smells like an MLM or if it tastes like an MLM, avoid it.

Information giveaways.
If you are signing up for a freebie or registering for anything on the Net you should only give the information that is absolutely necessary. If a site is asking for more information than seems to make sense for the type of offer then either use the tip above, or just avoid it.

If it looks like they are trying to qualify you for a targeted mailing list they probably are. It is also good to note that you should never give out your phone number on the Net unless there is a very good reason for doing it. Junk email is bad enough, unsolicited phone calls we really don't need.

To avoid doing this I always enter "UL" for unlisted or I give them a "555" number. If they can't send me a freebie without a phone number, I don't want it anyway so I just move on.

Check the spam box
You will find that many registration forms have a check box that allows you to let them know if you don't want emails sent to you. If you want to avoid junk email, tell them that in the check box offered. If you exercise a little caution, a little common sense, and a few tricks, you can avoid a lot of unwanted email.