Spam: know more?

You may noticed that a folder named spam in your email account. Most of the people think that spam is only the email send by a person with another person's identity thereby hiding his own identity. Actually spam is anonymous as described above and is unsolicited bulk e-mail.
The spam is send by a person by hiding his own identity and provide the identity of another person. The receiver will think that the mail has come from the person whose identity is given by the person who created the spam. Generally the intention behind sending spam is to make money. The opening of the email will give the spammer a small amount of money for opening the mail by the recipient. Since the chance of opening the mail by the recipient is very low, spammers send the mail to more persons with fake identity. Fake identity is provided to make the recipient feel that the mail has come from the correct person or a person whom he trust. Often the legitimate mail resembles a spam. Spam message may include political messages, financial scams, etc. But the thing to be given most care is in the case of spams that carry some malwares.
Today the email traffic is dominated by the spams. Most of the spams are targeted to promote the selling of certain goods. But in most cases the selling of these goods are illegal like black market. But the user need not be aware of this illegal trade. In some cases the spams informs the recipient that he had won a cash prize and for the transfer of the amount the recipient must give the details of his bank account. If the recipient sent the details of his bank account, the spammer can empty the bank account of the recipient. In such cases the spam is called scam.
There are different types of spams today. They include: Adult Content, Health, IT, Personal Finance, Education/Training.
Care must be given in handling the e-mail to avoid the spams. The spammers use the combination of words and numbers to create a fake email id. So your e-mail must be in such a way that it must be difficult for creating by the combination of words and numbers. Another thing is that you must maintain two e-mail addresses- one for public use like registering in forums, chating etc and other for your private use. The second one does not declared public. Do not open a message if you are sure that it is a spam. The opening of such messages may help the spammers to gather more information about your e-mail. Do not respond/reply to a spam. This will help the spammers more than what we think. Use a good filtering software for filtering the spam messages.