Spam and scam sound similar and they sometimes both go hand in hand with each other. Spam e-mails are usually unsolicited e-mails sent by bulk to any internet e-mail users for product or product advertisements with or without the use of a program. Sometimes the sources could be scams. These usually happen when emails are made available online or in any posted areas. For pre-cautionary measures, posting e-mails online should be avoided (especially with @ sign) as the spammers could easily search them online. Another way is to avoid getting involved in chain letters as the e-mails are passed to any unknown receivers. Spamming is very difficult to put to a stop completely where spammers use various strategies to send e-mails to servers such as changing of email subjects, contents, senders’ names, e-mail addresses, cloaked IP addresses, using graphic contents instead of text ones and many others. Mail service providers should install programs with algorithms to counter spams in their servers as to protect the subscribers. E-mail service providers such as Hotmail, Yahoo or Google Gmail and others have their own programs catering this need which include identifying spam e-mails and directing them to Bulk mails. But, sometimes spam e-mails could even still go through the inbox and there would be cases of identifying the wanted e-mails as spams where the solution to this is by registering contacts’ e-mails to the address book.

            Although spam e-mails can be tolerated but scam mails are just really scary. One should exercise extreme caution in identifying the legitimacy of the correspondence and taking the right action by not engaging into any proposals sent.