Archive for the ‘Spam’ Category

In 2007 Sophos made public its monthly top of global Link Spam Statistics from April to June 2007 which finds out that China and the USA are the utmost lawbreakers when it comes to countries sending unsolicited e-mail. It is easy to understand that the inspection hasn’t been done just to blame the US for spam circulation, European countries in sum have higher percentage of spam than the US do. When corresponded to 2006, this quarter noticed a worldwide 9 percent increase of junk e-mail. South Korea came in third place on the roll having 6.5 percent spam, then Poland with 4.8 percent, Germany with 4.2 percent, Brazil 4.1 percent, France 3.3 percent, Russia 3.1 percent, Turkey 2.9 percent, UK with 2.8 percent, Italy with 2.8 percent and conclusively India with 2.5 percent.
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You just got a vital email from the wife of the recently departed Nigerian head of state. It seems that the former Nigerian leader's family is being stressed and deprived of access to the last of the family funds. She is very much seeking someone outside of the country to aid secure this $38 million dollar fund. If you are keen to help, she will prize you with a substantial portion of the $38 million dollars.
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Does any of this sound familiar? You get so much spam that you have to keep your finger on the delete button whenever you check your email. Then you inevitably erase the one or two important messages that you really needed to see, so you have to sift through all the spam again in your Trash folder to find them.
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List servers and list serving software can be a TOTAL NIGHTMARE. Trust me, I know…
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Have you ever received e-mail messages that threaten to close your PayPal or Ebay account unless you send them information? It's a scam called "phishing." It is pronounced "fishing." It means what it says. Internet scam artists are fishing for information. It comes from Internet fraudsters who send spam or pop-up messages to lure personal information from you. Their objective is to extract sensitive information from unsuspecting victims.
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Of the many techniques to leach away value from web e-consumers and e-commerce in general, PHISHING is the worst and easiest to implement, all it takes is a web page look-a-like and an ip packet sniffer to gather email addresses. It's so easy in fact that it is wildly used and has reached epidemic proportions. The most targeted sites are banks, ecommerce sites like ebay and payment services like paypal. Generally phishers send email to target victims prompting them to login into fake look-a-like forms that look legitimate but are designed to capture your credentials. Logging into these forms will divulge your user and password information and put it in the hands of those who will exploit your account.
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Lotus Notes is the most popular client-server, collaborative application developed and sold by IBM Software Group. IBM defines the software as an "integrated desktop client" option for accessing business emails, calendars, to-do lists, journals, business contacts.
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You may have have found yourself in the following position. You open your email program, get up to make some coffee and upon your return you find your inbox crammed full of unwanted junk mail. It is going to waste your time (and money!) just to try and sort through this much email on a daily basis and may amount to no more than a hill of beans. You want some anti-spam filtering to help you with sorting your emails.
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There are laws in place that sets out what can and cannot be done about spam. Spam law attempts to inhibit and prosecute spammers while protecting the rights of legal email senders. You should know what your rights are according to these laws.
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The features of the best spam filtering software out there all share common grounds of hard work and dedication – and an ability to not only make it easy for the end user to operate their software, but to also be targeted and extremely focused in delivering their promise – which is essentially to make junk emails only a memory of the entire work process. This article will discuss on the common 3 features of great spam filtering software out there, and using this information as a guide to spot, download and even purchase the email filtering software that you need to defend yourself against the advent of spam.
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