To lessen the amount of received spam mail, you should:
- Be careful where you give out your email.
- Do not open any links or attachments on spam emails.
- Be careful when giving out your email for "Special Offers" and raffles. Email addresses given in this way are commonly compiled and sold to other vendors.
- Select the spam email and have it directed to your Junk Mail folder.See this article from Microsoft on using the Junk Email filter in Outlook.
To safeguard your information, you should:
- Learn to recognize what phishing email and links look like. See this article from Microsoft for an example of a phishing scam in an email message.
- If you see a link in a suspicious email message, don't click on it.
- Learn to recognize and report email scams. See this blog post from Information Security on how to protect yourself from phishing email scams.