Tech Q&A: Making it harder for spammers to learn more about you

Automated tools to fight junk or spam e-mail can go only so far. Users have to take some practical steps to fight the tide. — Dreamstime/TNS

Spam keeps changing and several readers wonder what to do about it. Sharon Gresham of Sarasota, Florida, says she’s begun receive e-mails in a foreign language, and trying to block them hasn’t worked.

Ann Donovan of Colorado Springs, Colorado, says she’s getting a steady stream of what appear to be scam e-mails from someone named Elene, who she thinks in not a real person. Labelling the e-mails as spam stopped them for only a short time.