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 steps to follow to limit spam:
-: Confirm the email is a spam message. If it is not from someone who you recognise, if they claim you have won a large sum of money, if it's too good to be true are good examples.
+: Confirm the email is a spam message. If it is not from someone who you recognise, if they claim you have won a large sum of money, or if it's too good to be true, are good examples.
 : Don't post your e-mail address on a public forum or website. It is estimated that 95% of all junk e-mail is caused by a person publicly disclosing his or her e-mail address. There are many robots and scripts that automatically scan websites for e-mail addresses.

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 steps to follow to limit spam:
-: Confirm the email is a spam message. If it is not from someone who you recognise, if they claim you have won a large sum of money, if its to good to be true are good examples.
+: Confirm the email is a spam message. If it is not from someone who you recognise, if they claim you have won a large sum of money, if it's too good to be true are good examples.
 : Don't post your e-mail address on a public forum or website. It is estimated that 95% of all junk e-mail is caused by a person publicly disclosing his or her e-mail address. There are many robots and scripts that automatically scan websites for e-mail addresses.
-: Do not respond to spam emails since the sending address of the spam email is most likely hacked itself and is just being used to send out the spam emails. A spammer will never use there own email address to send out spam. However in some other cases if you do respond and the spammer will take notice and will just confirm to them that your email address is valid and can be used for more spam.
+: Do not respond to spam emails since the sending address of the spam email is most likely hacked itself and is just being used to send out the spam emails. A spammer will never use their own email address to send out spam. However in some other cases if you do respond, the spammer will take notice and this will just confirm to them that your email address is valid and can be used for more spam.
 : Only use and submit your email address to trusted/reputable websites that do not sell your email address to 3rd parties or advertisers.
-: Report spam to Imaginet by forwarding the original spam email as a '''attachment''' to spam@imaginet.co.za for processing.
+: Report spam to Imaginet by forwarding the original spam email as an '''attachment''' to spam@imaginet.co.za for processing.
 [[How Imaginet blocks spam]]

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 : Confirm the email is a spam message. If it is not from someone who you recognise, if they claim you have won a large sum of money, if its to good to be true are good examples.
-: Stop posting your e-mail address on a public forum or website. It is estimated that 95% of all junk e-mail is caused by a person publicly disclosing his or her e-mail address. There are many robots and scripts that automatically scan websites for e-mail addresses.
+: Don't post your e-mail address on a public forum or website. It is estimated that 95% of all junk e-mail is caused by a person publicly disclosing his or her e-mail address. There are many robots and scripts that automatically scan websites for e-mail addresses.
 : Do not respond to spam emails since the sending address of the spam email is most likely hacked itself and is just being used to send out the spam emails. A spammer will never use there own email address to send out spam. However in some other cases if you do respond and the spammer will take notice and will just confirm to them that your email address is valid and can be used for more spam.

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-Spam is a daily headache for most people who use the Internet. These emails usually contain links or attached files that can potentially infect your computer, laptop or cellphone with malware, spyware or viruses. It is important to understand the best ways to prevent spam in the first place and also know not to respond directly back to these spammers as that will just confirm your email address is a valid email address.
+Spam is a daily headache for most people who use the Internet. These emails usually contain links or attached files that can potentially infect your computer, laptop or cellphone with malware, spyware or viruses. It is important to understand the best ways to prevent spam.
 steps to follow to limit spam:
 : Confirm the email is a spam message. If it is not from someone who you recognise, if they claim you have won a large sum of money, if its to good to be true are good examples.
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 : Stop posting your e-mail address on a public forum or website. It is estimated that 95% of all junk e-mail is caused by a person publicly disclosing his or her e-mail address. There are many robots and scripts that automatically scan websites for e-mail addresses.
-: Only use and submit your email address to trusted/ reputable websites that do not sell your email address to 3rd parties or advertisers.
+: Do not respond to spam emails since the sending address of the spam email is most likely hacked itself and is just being used to send out the spam emails. A spammer will never use there own email address to send out spam. However in some other cases if you do respond and the spammer will take notice and will just confirm to them that your email address is valid and can be used for more spam.
-: Block spam using [http://my.imaginet.co.za MyDot], you can easily blacklist email addresses using this method.
+: Only use and submit your email address to trusted/reputable websites that do not sell your email address to 3rd parties or advertisers.
-: Install spam blocking tools for your specific mail client, some examples are:
+: Report spam to Imaginet by forwarding the original spam email as a '''attachment''' to spam@imaginet.co.za for processing.
 [[How Imaginet blocks spam]]

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 [http://www.spam-reader.com Spam Reader]
-: Report spam to Imaginet using abuse at imaginet dot co dot za.
+: Report spam to Imaginet using spam@imaginet.co.za
 [[How Imaginet blocks spam]]

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 : Only use and submit your email address to trusted/ reputable websites that do not sell your email address to 3rd parties or advertisers.
-: Block spam using [http://mydot.imaginet.c.za MyDot], you can easily blacklist email addresses using this method.
+: Block spam using [http://mydot.imaginet.co.za MyDot], you can easily blacklist email addresses using this method.
 : Install spam blocking tools for your specific mail client, some examples are: