How to stay spam-free in patch 4.2 ?

WoW Gold is increasing by the minute in trade and general chat. The horde of spam screamers will reach critical mass in the coming weeks as we near the release, so prepare accordingly. Thwart their nasty advances whether in-game or out with these prove spam prevention methods.


Spammers will come out of the woodwork any day now ahead of Patch 4.2: Rage of the Firelands, and their sole mission in life will be to disrupt your playtime sanity.

E-MAIL PREVENTION

Do not use your Battle.net email. Getting spam e-mail is nasty enough as it is, do you want to take on another set of headaches when your Battle.net email gets hacked and your account stolen? It’s safer to use a “dummy” email account (Surprise, it’s easy and free to make one in Yahoo! or Google)

Beware of fan sites. Choose your fan sites wisely because it’s a known fact that most of them use unsecure programs and codes that are easily hacked by Chinese spammers. That email you provided during registration? They’ll flood it with spam offers so determine first if it’s absolutely necessary for you to rant in that fan site when the official forums will already do.

Do not buy from in-game sellers. You’d be sniffing Firelands sulfur if you think in-game sellers can be trusted with your email address. If you’re foolish enough to buy from SusanExpress and other known in-game spammers, it’s 100% guaranteed that you’ll be spending the next weekend deleting unwelcome email. Remember the Golden Rule: Once a spammer, always a spammer.

Block the right keywords. Spam filters are now so advanced that you can target specific senders, header lines and message content from your inbox. But when you do start getting spam (I told you not to trust SSEX and her ilk), spend time analyzing their doozy offers. Look for patterns: Coupon codes, subject phrases, even the often ridiculous names of their senders.

IN-GAME PREVENTION

Report spam. This protocol has been simplified into two steps. Right-click spammer’s name, then choose the “REPORT SPAM” option. You might think it doesn’t work, like how the AFK report button doesn’t work in battlegrounds, but believe me your clicking helps in cleaning up the trash toons littering the game.

Install a spam blocker. Early this year, I listed the top 5 anti-spam addons that you should use to guard against Ni Hao Gold4U >.< filth. A couple of those I personally know to be still working, but you won’t run out of comparable spam filters at addon heaven Fedexwowgold.com

Ignore and do not respond! Basic psychology teaches us that giving attention to deranged people only excites them even more. Do not respond to whispers offering you the most amazing batch of WoW Gold you can ever imagine. For one, that spam whisperer is lying. Two, you’ll only encourage the behavior and help his work quota for PLAYERS BOTHERED (Believe me; even spam whisperers have performance metrics. Add all these to your filters to stop the flow of WoW Gold spam.

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