Spam is the order of the day today. The abusive and constant messages as well as the pishing are really annoying and even dangerous in the last case. That is why there are ways to prevent this type of communication from entering the iPhone itself. In this article we will tell you all the methods that exist to do this.
What is considered Spam or Phishing?
Every day you can receive numerous emails and text messages that have different purposes. One of them is the advertising of different businesses that inform you of all the offers they have in order that you can consume and take advantage of them. These are normally valid because you yourself would have accepted in the registration to a specific website to receive communications with commercial content. The problem is when these emails are abusive and are sent without your own explicit consent, which is already considered SPAM. In the end it is still quite annoying. And although we focus on emails, it can also reach you through text message and even in telephone calls from companies that repeatedly call telephone communications in order to achieve the sales objective.
The problem comes when these messages are totally fraudulent. This means that they try to introduce different viruses on your mobile device or even that you provide personal information to be able to carry out cybercrime. Typical cases are the receipt of emails with information that you have an unpaid traffic fine and you have to pay it to avoid problems, or even from courier companies such as Correos that inform you of the impossibility of delivering a package without paying customs charges . This is where there is a focus of cyber infection and it should be avoided at all times. We will tell you below how you can prevent these messages from entering.
Block fraudulent emails
One of the first things you should do when dealing with these fraudulent emails is to completely block them. That is, the sender must automatically enter your blacklist to prevent its reception. One thing is to send them to the spam folder you have in your email manager and another is to block it completely. This means that no email from that recipient that you already have marked as fraudulent can enter, so you can never bite into their tricks to make you click on links that you should not and that can end up costing you very much.
To be able to block a specific contact in the Mail application, you simply have to follow the following steps:
- Access the fraudulent email in particular.
- At the top you can click to view all the recipient data and the person who sent it.
- When you click on the contact of the person who sent it to you, you will see that their card appears, which at first will not be saved on your device.
- Among the options that appear you must click on ‘block contact’.
From that moment on, all the messages that that person wants to send you will be totally blocked. You will not be able to read them at any time and in this way you will be much safer when surfing the net.
Avoid calls from strangers
As we have previously commented, another of the entries of the Spam to the iPhone is the telephone calls. Through these, they can pose as a company that wants to request some personal data with the aim of signing fraudulent contracts. This can be very typical of bogus utility calls trying to make changes by misleading users. We can also find cases of companies that are quite intense in calls to be able to achieve a specific purpose, such as telephone companies that at certain times call at times that are not the most appropriate and that fall within what is considered Spam That is why all those calls that you do not know their origin are better not to take them. You can also search for the phone in question that is calling you in Google to be able to know the information that exists about it in different forums.
All these calls can be blocked instantly by putting the specific phone number on an iPhone blacklist. At the moment, all the calls made to your number will make it simulate that it is off and therefore do not bother you at any time. To be able to carry out this process, you simply have to follow the following steps:
- Enter the phonebook of your device and access the section on the history of calls that have been made to you.
- Choose the phone number that does not stop bothering you with calls.
- You will enter the card of the contact that in principle you will not have added.
- Among the options that appear you must click on ‘Block contact’ which is with a red font.
Access the Robinson list
Despite all these blocking options, which are ideal for the case of Pishing that does not ask you for any permission to send an email or a call, the most advisable thing is without a doubt to register on the Robinson list. Since your data is present in this database, the selected companies will not have any right to contact you for commercial purposes. In this way, it is much easier to express your desire not to receive these communications than to go company by company by going to each of the emails dedicated to the data protection services of each of the companies.
To do this, you simply have to enter the robinson list website and register with your personal data. In each of the accounts you can register several mobile phones as well as email. This information will be transferred to the companies that you want from the list that will appear on your own page.
Spam on the iOS calendar
Although it may seem incredible, spam can also sneak in through the calendar. It is done through different events that you have not accessed on your own and that appear on random days. They do this by entering your email in an illegal way. In order to eliminate all the rastos of these events, you can remove your subscription from the calendar in a fairly simple way. This is achieved in the following way:
- Open calendar and at the bottom click ‘Calendars’.
- Look for the calendar you don’t recognize and tap the button with an ‘i’ next to it.
- Scroll down and tap on ‘Delete calendar’.
If none of this works, you can also go to the device’s own settings in the ‘Calendar> Accounts’ section. This will remove the subscription forever. To this is added that when blocking contacts you can prevent them from putting you in calendars that you do not want.
Report all the messages that come to you from Pishing
In order to protect the rest of the users and notify the companies in order to initiate the pertinent legal actions, it is to import all these messages. It must be done to the original company they are impersonating. Examples of this we have, for example, the banks or telephone companies of which they pass themselves off in a rather mean way. All of these have security emails to be able to investigate all these cases.
You can also resort to notification through social networks where they can also provide you with the necessary information to notify these events. In addition, some email managers also allow you to notify it in order to notify you in the event that any email is suspicious to avoid interacting with it.