Anyone with an mail address is a target for spam with legion noticing a huge increase in the late many months since the coronavirus crossroad. But how can you stop admitting these annoying communications? Is there anything you can do?
1– Utilise a private and public email address. Optus webmail provides the capability to beget multiple airmail accounts so you can use one for your amigos and family, and another to autograph up for mailing lists and to subscribe to companies apps and websites. Using at least two airmail addresses keeps your private airmail spam free.
2– Check to see if your email address has been part of any published hacking or spam list breaches. You can use a website called Have I Been Pwned? to see if your billet-doux address has been mentioned in a breach bulletin or is on a published spammer list.
Notwithstanding, you're likely going to admit evolved than normal volumes of spam as your mail address has been published, and you might like to consider starting a new “ clean ” mail address by communicating Optus support and we can add new bones for you, If your address is mentioned on this website.
3– Optus provides a spam filter that sits on our mail server Notwithstanding because of the menace of filtering legal communication it can not be as strict as may be necessitated for druggies who are on high volume spam lists. For this reason, maintaining your own, third party, spam blot is always a great way to combat high spam volumes. You can be as strict as you like with your own blot rules and use it in convergence with the, lower strict, Optus filtering.
4- Optus Webmail has a feature where you can report spam that has bypassed our grime grime. You open webmail.optusnet and find the spam that's in your Inbox. Use your right mouse button to click on the spam and either opt “ Spam ” from the drop down menu that appears. This either reports the spam to the Optus Network Security party and also reports the spam to the Optus grime so that it can be filtered for other patrons before they take it.
5- Beware of Optus branded phishing scams that are used to steal your note address and word. Optus will nowise as that you log in to your account via an email. However, use the “ My Optus ” app instead from the Google Play and Apple iTunes stores to check all your account releases and balances, If you're ever unsettled of an note that clams to be from Optus. However, it'll be advised there, If there's a problem with your payment or other details. This is also the sporty place to check on your data balances and use.