Have you ever found yourself being billed for goods not delivered or billed twice for purchases from a website which has ultimately disappeared? Its time you stay clear of the nasty world of spam and spammy credit card websites. It is very important to check through a search engine if the credit card website which you have landed at, is genuine or not. This is extremely important before you place an order.

Spam is a criminal offence and a cyber crime under US Federal Law (CAN SPAM ACT of 2003). You cannot in any way, afford to hand over your credit card details or make credit card purchases through a fraudulent organization. Spam websites are hosted in countries beyond the jurisdiction or the control of courts in your country. In case, you have unknowingly made a credit card transaction from a spammy website, you can contact your credit card company and let them know about the purchase. If you can provide the details of the transaction from your credit card statement or otherwise, you may be able to get a refund from your credit card company. You can even sue the spammy website if it happens to be in your country. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has a form in its website where you can mention the problem and get it resolved soon as possible.

Spammy websites use relevant softwares to keep a track of websites with a motive to extract any email addresses found in those pages. They can pick up the contact address on your personal website or choose the address on the guestbook of a site and add it to their spammers list. Soon the information is sent across to other spammy websites as well. Do not provide a clickable link for mailing you on your own site. You can, however, create a graphic representation like a GIF or JPEG image of your email address. It will not be able to be cut and pasted. Spammers also use dictionary attack which is system of sending emails to random and guessed or made-up email addresses.

There are only limited legal means to stop your domain or email addresses from being used as spam. You can contact the office of the Attorney General in US because the ISP and the Attorney General has the right to sue spammy websites. You can ask your webmaster or provider to disable catch all in your email domain. This will bounce off spammy emails that hit your emails server. You can also send a Sender Policy Framework (SPF) entry for your domain that states which IP addresses are allowed to send email with your domain name as a sender address. You can do this in collaboration with your webhoster. You can also subscribe to a spam filter to keep your computer free from spam attack.