Sometime last year, we wrote about the dangers of email broadcasting or rather what it is to be in a friend’s mailing list. Lately, we have seen some of our friends back to that habit of including our email address in a long list of addresses shown in the To: field. It is horrifying to [...]
“Alpha-numerics” email spams
January 17, 2011 By 1 Comment
I understand what email spams like shortened hyperlinks, keywords, photos, poetry (?) and images are trying to accomplish. But the spams which have of late been hitting our mailbox are something we cannot understand. What are these spams trying to achieve? I am sure you have seen these spams as well. These are what I [...]
Shortened hyperlinks spams are mostly from Yahoo users
December 28, 2010 By 1 Comment
Last July, we reported the significant increase of spam containing shortened hyperlinks. We noticed too that a majority of the emails of this type we have been receiving are from Yahoo users. And some are from rocketmail users. We have not seen any emails of this type “originating” from our correspondents using other webmail accounts [...]
Shortened hyperlinks spam on the rise
July 30, 2010 By 2 Comments
In its July 2010 MessageLabs Intelligence Report, Symantec reported that the percentage of spam containing shortened hyperlinks has increased significantly over the last year. The report said that spam containing shortened hyperlinks hit a one day peak of 18 percent, or 23.4 billion spam emails, on April 30, 2010 doubling last year’s peak levels when [...]
How to be contacted online the spam-free way
April 30, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Up to now, we still see people displaying their email addresses in their blog posts. And these include columnists of major news sites which we find very disappointing. The practice of displaying email addresses in web pages is an open invitation to spammers who use spambots which crawl on webpages to harvest anything that looks [...]
Verizon.com is world’s fifth worst internet service provider: Spamhaus
February 17, 2010 By 3 Comments
The Spamhaus Project, an international spam monitoring and tracking organisation, has issued a damning report on the world’s top 10 worst internet service providers (ISPs). The report listed Verizon.com as number 5. Verizon in its news release last 11 August announced that is the “highest-ranked U.S.-based telecommunications company” in ethical ranking based on study by [...]
Australia not in Top 10 worst spam origin countries, but home to #6 spammer
October 27, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Daily updates of the independent spam-tracking organisation, The Spamhaus Project, are like a “Who’s Who?” in world economy and industrial power. The United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, China and Japan. Yes, they are all there. Except Australia. How Australia has been able to elude the Top 10 list is not due to its relatively [...]
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