Our friends have asked us what we think are the top five advice we can give them to avoid being spammed. Here are our top five tips: Do not respond to suspicious spammed emails. Do not click on the unsubscribe link, as the unsubscribe link is often used as a device to confirm the recipient’s [...]
Stay away from social network sites, my friend
August 11, 2008 By 3 Comments
Just recently, a friend of mine was a victim of the viral marketing practice of a social network site (SNS). For the purpose of this article, let’s call the SNS, My FriendlySite. MyFriendlySite sent out invitations to my friend’s contacts to join MyFriendlySite. To those who know her, the invites totally look not measuring to [...]
What Is Identity Theft And How To Prevent It?
May 2, 2008 By 12 Comments
Becoming a victim of identity theft is never something you would want to happen to you, especially as it can end up depriving you of your life’s earnings and even put you into deep debt without it in any way being a result of your own actions. The frustrating thing about identity theft is that [...]
Why you should not send ‘remove me’ requests to spammers
March 20, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Have you ever wondered why your spam emails keep on increasing although you regularly click the ‘remove me’ links in spam you receive? Consider this. When an email is sent out by spammers to your email address, they do not really have any idea if it is valid or not. Your email address could just [...]
Be in a friend’s mailing list and be a spammer’s delight
March 19, 2008 By 2 Comments
No, I don’t refer to joining mailing lists where the email message is customized to reflect the recipient’s identity or the email message is addressed to an aliased egroup. I refer to being in a mailing list of someone, supposedly a friend, who appears to get a kick out of showing that s/he knows many people [...]
The definition of spam is getting stricter
March 19, 2008 By 2 Comments
For sometime, it was the common impression that just because a bulk email is not commercially beneficial to the sender, then the bulk email is not considered spam. For those who still subscribe to that definition, think again. The content or resulting benefits of the bulk email are not relevant. These days, it is not [...]
How to avoid being spammed
March 19, 2008 By Leave a Comment
The Coalition Against Unsolicited Bulk Email, Australia (CAUBE.AU) and the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email (CAUCE) have articles on “How to Avoid Being Spammed.” The articles deal with topics like: 1. Where do spammers get my address? 2. What should I do to avoid spam? 3. I’m already on the spammer’s list. What can I [...]
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