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 by […]

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 […]

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 do to stop it?
Although […]

Here’s the world’s top 10 worst spammers as at 17 March 2008:
1. Leo Kuvayev / BadCow (Russian Federation)
Russian/American spammer. Does “OEM CD” pirated software spam, copy-cat pharmaceuticals, porn spam, porn payment collection, etc. Spams using virus-created botnets and seems to be involved in virus distribution. Partnered with Vlad - aka “Mr. Green”
2. Alex Blood / […]

Unsolicited commercial e-mail (UCE) or Unsolicited Bulk E-mail (UBE) is generally known as spam. Spam is junk e-mail, sent indiscriminately for the purpose of selling goods or services (often of a dubious nature) and can also include phishing attempts and virus infections.
How spam operates
There are many ways that e-mail addresses can be obtained online. However, […]