Usage of global free e-mail services instead of institutional or company’s e-mail addresses can more often cause security drawbacks. Regarding their weaknesses it can be assumed that there will be more unwanted e-mails when using those addresses. In order to receive unwanted e-mail and compare the amount that user receives at different e-mail addresses the authors simulated part of e-mail usage, the one when user registers on different Internet services. Results have shown that the users of the global free e-mail services on average receive significantly more unwanted e-mail compared to the users that use institutional or company’s e-mail address. There was also significant difference found among free global e-mail services. Simulation has also shown increasing trend in amount of unwanted e-mail received per month. Regarding these results and previous studies the authors’ advice is to prefer institutional or company’s e-mail address over free global e-mail services for Internet communication, especially when it is used for professional e-mail communication.
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