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 [...]
Jamaica-based telemarketing scams
June 27, 2009 By 1 Comment
The Federal Trade Commission and other U.S. law enforcement agencies have partnered with Jamaican authorities to share informaiton, investigators and complaint data to crack down fraudulent telemarketing operations in Jamaica. The telemarketing operations involve Jamaica-based telemarketing scammers who pose as lawyers, customs officials or lottery representatives and target U.S. residents with phony promises of sweepstakes [...]
Spammers use images to flood emails with online ads
April 6, 2009 By 1 Comment
The number of websites blocked for hosting malicious content rose to 2,797 websites per day in March, according to a MessageLabs report, a 197.2% increase over the previous month and the highest level since October 2008. Photo: An email with images found by MessageLabs containing scripts The report attributed the increase to a sharp increase [...]
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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