{"id":20517,"date":"2023-05-01T13:26:44","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T12:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/?p=20517"},"modified":"2023-05-01T13:26:44","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T12:26:44","slug":"what-is-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/en\/what-is-spam\/","title":{"rendered":"What is spam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spam is unwanted email that often has a commercial background, such as advertising products or services.<\/p>\n<p>What makes an email spam is that you receive it without having signed up for the advertisement.<\/p>\n<h2>How does a &#8220;spammer&#8221; get your email address?<\/h2>\n<p>They are obtained by computers using scripts (also called BOTS) from websites that can be found on Google.<\/p>\n<h2>Place a contact form<\/h2>\n<p>It is advisable to use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbeveiligen.nl\/contact-form-7-gebruiken\">Contact form 7<\/a>. With Contact form 7 you can place a contact form on your website.<br \/>\nThe customer can send you a message that appears in your mailbox, <strong>without revealing your email address<\/strong> on the website.<\/p>\n<h2>Legislation on spam<\/h2>\n<p>It is legally required to provide recipients of advertising with the option to unsubscribe.<br \/>\nTherefore, you often find a link at the bottom of the email, in very small letters: <strong>unsubscribe here<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Be careful when unsubscribing, as they may use tricks.<br \/>\n<strong>Read carefully what it says<\/strong>, otherwise you may click on a sentence like:<br \/>\n<em>Do you not want to receive email from third parties but do want to receive email from us? Click here&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Then you&#8217;re still stuck with it!<\/p>\n<h2>What WPbeveiligen does against spam<\/h2>\n<p>Of course, we are actively involved in <strong>making websites hack-free<\/strong>. Websites are often hacked to send spam!<\/p>\n<p>We also offer <strong>hosting with the necessary spam filters<\/strong> so that you receive less spam.<br \/>\nWe also have various manual options to <strong>prevent spam<\/strong>, such as setting filters based on domain name, email address, specific words, and more!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spam is unwanted email that often has a commercial background, such as advertising products or services. What makes an email spam is that you receive it without having signed up for the advertisement. How does a &#8220;spammer&#8221; get your email address? They are obtained by computers using scripts (also called BOTS) from websites that can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}