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Author :: Lewis Leake  |
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| Article Title :: How To Identify Spam |
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Most of us have opened our email program and found, alongside
correspondence from people that we know, offers for products
from commercial web sites. Some of these emails we expect. We
have asked to be notified of sales and other opportunities or
joined a mailing list offered by the company.
Many times, however, the offers are from companies that we have
never done business with and may have never even heard of. This
is Spam, unsolicited bulk email, and can quickly lead to a
massive overload of your inbox.
Identifying Spam as soon as it occurs is the first step to
preventing it from happening again. Once your email address is
in circulation with these companies, you are well on your way t (read full article) |
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| Category :: Spam Articles |
Author :: Paul Judge, CTO, CipherTrust, Inc. |
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| Article Title :: Evict the Spammers from Your Inbox |
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Block Spam and Other Email Threats From Entering Your Gateway
Spam, commonly defined as unsolicited commercial email, is a
powerful advertising channel for many products and services. As
a result, spamming has become a profitable business, driven by
the low cost of sending email compared to other direct marketing
techniques. The high return on investment for spammers has
resulted in an overwhelming volume of unwanted messages in
personal and business email boxes. Consider this: Conducting a
direct mail campaign costs an average of $1.39 per person,
meaning that a response rate of 1 in 14 is necessary just to
break even on a product with a $20 gross profit. Selling the
same item via unsolic (read full article) |
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| Category :: Spam Articles |
Author :: Paul Judge, CTO, CipherTrust, Inc. |
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| Article Title :: Spammer in the Slammer: Jeremy Jaynes Sentenced to Nine Years |
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Will other spammers take heed? Don’t count on it. Jeremy Jaynes
was on top of the world. By age 28, he owned a million-dollar
home, a high-class restaurant, a chain of gyms and countless
other toys. Yet those were only the spoils of his main line of
business, which was swindling innocent people out of their money
through email scams. From an unassuming house serving as his
company’s headquarters in Raleigh, NC, Jaynes sent an estimated
ten million messages a day pitching products most recipients
didn't want, amassing an estimated $24 million fortune in the
process. Using aliases such as Jeremy James and Gaven
Stubberfield, Jaynes spammed his way up to the #8 position on
Spamhaus’ Regi (read full article) |
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| Category :: Spam Articles |
Author :: Paul Judge, CTO, CipherTrust, Inc. |
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| Article Title :: BUSTED: Anti Spam Forces Bankrupt Super-Spammer Scott Richter |
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Microsoft scores one for the good guys Scott Richter, the
self-proclaimed “Spam King,” just can’t seem to get enough
attention. Admittedly responsible for sending literally billions
of Unsolicited Commercial Email messages (UCE), Richter made
headlines again recently when his spam-fed cash cow,
OptInRealBig.com, filed for bankruptcy protection in U.S.
federal court in his home state of Colorado. According to
Richter’s father (who is also his attorney), “It’s the legal
fees that are battering the company. OptIn is profitable but for
these lawsuits.”
At the time of its bankruptcy filing, OptInRealBig.com claimed
assets of less than $10 million and liabilities of over $50
milli (read full article) |
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| Category :: Spam Articles |
Author :: Robin Henry |
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| Article Title :: Stuffing the Spammers! |
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I'm really, truly fed up with spam. Every day when the spam
arrives and Norton Security moves it into the Norton Anti-spam
folder of my Outlook email client, I wonder how anyone can be so
incredibly stupid as to waste their time sending me such garbage.
Let's face it; I never read it. I never buy anything from
unsolicited sources or do anything as a result of spam. I detest
it! And God knows I don't need viagra, however many times it's
offered.
What fool would send anyone a message about a mortgage
application approval when he has owned his house for years?
What fool would write offering me a peep at her new porn site?
I'm not interested in porn ... I prefer the real thing. Offer me
som (read full article) |
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| Category :: Spam Articles |
Author :: Lakshmi Menon |
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| Article Title :: How to Protect Your Email ID from Spammers? |
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You must be one of them experiencing a lot of unwanted emails
flooding into your mail box every day. It is annoying, and a
"daily" problem for many.
How do the spammers find your email? They can find your email
address either in the text of a web page or in a mailto link.
The spammers enjoy harvesting the emails and ultimately those
emails are spammed with junk mails.
I came to know about some simple methods to protect our email
IDs from spammers, which I hope may be of some help to you too.
1. While leaving your email address on the web page or on a text
message or on a discussion board, write like this - username @
domainname. com (Please note the space in between). Then during
the har (read full article) |
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| Category :: Spam Articles |
Author :: Alan Hearnshaw |
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| Article Title :: So What Makes a Good Spam Filter Anyway? |
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So What Makes a Good Spam Filter Anyway? By Alan Hearnshaw
Spam Filters. Most of us know we need one. Some of know we need
a better one, but how many stop to think what actually makes a
good spam filter in the first place?
This is not just a rhetorical question. It is a question that
many users – and many developers - do not ask, and consequently,
goes unanswered.
Maybe this could be better answered by defining here the
qualities of the perfect spam filter. We’ll call our perfect
spam filter the “SpamSplatter 3000”. Here are some of the
defining qualities of “SpamSplatter 3000”
1. It requires zero interaction from the user. 2. It produces
zero false positives (good messages (read full article) |
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| Category :: Spam Articles |
Author :: Roxana Danaila |
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| Article Title :: Next-gen BitDefender solution adds heuristic spam filters |
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BitDefender 8 SpamDeny, the new antispam solution for Windows
workstations launched today is an advanced email protection tool
which features updated, as well as new filters. “I’m very
satisfied with how this version has turned out, because internal
testing has shown an improvement of over 35% in detection rates,
over the previous version. I would like to take this opportunity
to thank all our users and testers, as we wouldn’t have had such
a great product without their hard work, input and feedback,”
said Nicolae Simon, BitDefender Product Marketing Manager.
The new rules of the updated Heuristic filter will dutifully
trash some new scam spam types, such as Nigerian scams, online
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| Category :: Spam Articles |
Author :: Robert Rogers |
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| Article Title :: Detect, Protect, Dis-infect |
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Consumers Online Face Wide Choices in Security Products
With new threats to computer security and data integrity a
regular feature of the evening news, a panoply of products that
promise to detect, protect, and dis-infect are being marketed to
consumers. Intrusion detection systems, firewalls and anti-virus
software are critical to online security, but the Federal Trade
Commission, the nation’s consumer protection agency, says
computer users — from grade school kids to grandparents — need
to know exactly why they need online security products and what
they’re buying.
Why the Need Computers “talk” to each other over the Internet by
sending data through their communications p (read full article) |
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| Category :: Spam Articles |
Author :: Stephen Brennan |
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| Article Title :: Fighting Fire With Fire Won't Douse The Fire |
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In the last few weeks, I have noticed an increase in tools or
methods devised exclusively to fight the Spam fight. I applaud
the originators ideals and their ingenuity, but I must voice my
concern about the way in which such concepts can often backfire,
sometimes in the nastiest of ways.
I abhor spam. I hate it with a vengeance and would do ALMOST
anything to rid the Internet of it entirely. The worldwide
financial consequences alone run into billions of dollars
annually.It is comparable to the disruption that the propagation
of viruses causes and is responsible for creating a completely
independent niche market for the sale of tools and software
programs designed simply to combat it. Alt (read full article) |
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