Email Spams - Perils of Email SpamsEmail spams provides unwanted exposure to adults and children with indecent pictures, inappropriate sites, and viruses that comes in the form of email attachments. Though email communication is the least desirable medium for online predators, when compared to social networking and blogging, but danger remains from email spams. Email address is created in two ways, either by downloading a piece of software that your internet service provider provides or using free email services such as google, yahoo, hotmail etc… These free email services provides less security features or not at all when compared to internet service providers such as AOL. Depending upon how your email is registered on these free email services, most of these services though not all of them, provides your and yours children email addresses to advertisement companies. These advertisements can happen to be someone promoting adult specific content, and most of the adult websites target with words such as “teens”, “young” etc. Its quiet possible that your children might receive email by those advertisements companies, and may expose to unwanted pictures. Believe me, it has happened with lot of children. You may not believe it, but its true that most of the computer viruses are promoted through emails, and once these viruses are inside ones computer it may advise children to click a link to see some fun website, and once that link has been clicked, children are exposed to porn pictures from adult website. Viruses are capable to do much more harm such as sending porn pictures to everyone from your child’s email address without their knowing. What's next, FBI or Governmental Security Agencies knocking your door. Online Predators use emails in conjunction with chat rooms, once they gain trust of their target child through chatting, then they send all sorts of emails such as nude pictures, or setting an appointment to meet in personal. Lets face it, children are children, and therefore prone to left their email address mistakenly in their blogs or during chatting with someone, that may get into hands of wrong person. It's now up to parents to implement Email Safety Guidelines.
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