Occasionally, I received the emails especially related to financial services notifying something wrong or to update my account. The funny thing however is, these emails were sent randomly including the email that does not subscribe to that particular service

Whenever you received this kind of emails, just ignore it. Do not click the link provided. The better action would be forward it to the respective company’s email such as spoof@paypal.com for Paypal

Btw, screen shot below is the latest spoof email that i received. The sender’s email address should give you clear idea from where they’re coming from, NOT from Paypal

Lately also, I received a lot of spam email from Malaysian, offering non sense services and pledge for donation. I’ll normally not read the whole content; the ‘report spam’ button is the best way to teach this fellow their unethical behavior. Do not hesitate to do that, instead of delete the email, ‘report to spam’ will direct the email to spam folder in future

Quoting Yahoo’s FAQ,

reports of spam originating from a Yahoo! Mail account (i.e.,user@yahoo.com) receive our special attention. Since spamming is expressly prohibited in Yahoo!’s Terms of Use, any account caught spamming will be cancelled.

More Security Tips (taken from Maybank2u.com). However, tips below does not applied to all e-commerce website. Each system has their own tips and these information only acts as general knowledge to us

• Don’t open suspicious e-mail attachments.
• Avoid downloading free programs. These may incorporate hacker-friendly software.
• Download security updates such as MS, your antivirus regularly.
• Don’t use the “remember password” function because this information can be easily accessed by hackers.
• Clear your cache (information stored in your computer memory) each time you log out. .

Actions to report spam
You also can report spam email and search engine result by using link and email below

Google – to report spam result
FTC – to report spam email, send email to spam@uce.gov