most of us get SPAM every day. Some of us get more and some less. Even a newly created email accounts will start receiving spam just a few days after it was created. Many times we wonder where the spam is coming from and why? But this question remains unanswered in ourselves. So, in this post I will do my best to provide any information about spam and also will tell you about how to combat spam.
What is SPAM?
Spam is the abuse of electronic messaging systems (including most of the broadcast media, digital delivery system) to send the message unsolicited bulk indiscriminately. The most widely recognized form of spam is email spam.
Where SPAM is coming from?
Spam is only coming from spammers and never from a legitimate user or company. These spammers send an email to hundreds (a few thousands or millions) of email addresses at one time. They also send it manually or use spambots to automate the process of spamming.
Why do spammers SPAM?
The main objective of spammers is to send spam (bulk messages that are not required) to as many people as possible to make a profit. For example, John built a small site to sell an ebook that gives information about weight loss. In order to make the sale he needs publicity for the website. Instead of spending money on advertising, John decided to create an email containing information about the site along with a link and send this email to such email address 100 in the contact list. If 1 person out of a hundred buy this book john get $ 10. What if he would send an email to the email address 1000s. He got $ 100. Imagine, if he sent this email to the email address 1 million he earned $ 100,000.
Now I hope you understand the idea behind spamming. So in order to make money, email spammers advertising them as much as possible without any respect the privacy of the recipient.
Where do spammers get my email address?
On the Internet there are many sites that collect email ID people and sell them to spammers in bulk. Most often, the people who sign up for monthly newsletter and take surveys. This is the time in which the fraud sites are getting their email address. Also, many spammers collect email addresses using spambots. Spambots collect email addresses from the Internet in order to build mailing lists. As spambots are web crawlers that can gather email addresses from web sites, newsgroups, forums, special interest group (SIG) postings, and chat room conversations.
Spammers use this trick to create Hoax Emails to gather a large list of email ID. For example, a spammer sends an email scam that says "Forward this message to Help is Burned Children". This email claims that 11 cents will be donated to children's family every time a message is sent to someone else. Most people believe this and the scam was started forwarding the email to all the ID in their contact list. In this way the email that spread quickly and eventually when it reaches the creator (spammers), the spammers have a large list of valid email addresses in the email header. When you get this kind of hoax emails, you can see yourself in the email header contains a large list of email addresses of all persons to whom the email was forwarded to. This is one of effective methods used by spammers to collect email addresses.
Is Spamming laws?
Really spamming illegal. But very difficult to stop spamming the spammers because they are constantly moving from another hosting company after getting banned. This makes it nearly impossible to catch spammers and bring them to justice.
How to protect my email account to get SPAMmed?
The following methods can be used to combat spam emails.
1. Use a spam filter for your email account. If you use email services like Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc., then the spam filter used by defaut. Each spam filter's algorithm to detect spam and will automatically move it to the SPAM folder. This makes your inbox free from spam. However, some spam emails to be successful to make their way into the inbox with successfully through the filter.
2. Do not post your email address in public forums, user comments and chat-rooms. Provide your email address only to Web sites that can be trusted when you sign up for the newsletter.
3. While taking online surveys and fill out feedback forms, it is better to not give your personal email address. In contrast to singup dummy email account and use this to surveys and other forms of feedback.
4. While post your contact email address on your website using this format: emailaddress [at] emailaddress@yoursite.com yoursite.com instead. This will protect your email address from the indexed by spambots.
5. Not responding to hoax messages. When you receive an email scam, avoid forward to your friends. Example of hoax messages can be found in www.hoax-slayer.com. If you really want to forward it to your friends, make sure that you use the "Bcc" (blind copy) option to send an email. This will hide all the email ID letter forwarded to.
What is SPAM?
Spam is the abuse of electronic messaging systems (including most of the broadcast media, digital delivery system) to send the message unsolicited bulk indiscriminately. The most widely recognized form of spam is email spam.
Where SPAM is coming from?
Spam is only coming from spammers and never from a legitimate user or company. These spammers send an email to hundreds (a few thousands or millions) of email addresses at one time. They also send it manually or use spambots to automate the process of spamming.
Why do spammers SPAM?
The main objective of spammers is to send spam (bulk messages that are not required) to as many people as possible to make a profit. For example, John built a small site to sell an ebook that gives information about weight loss. In order to make the sale he needs publicity for the website. Instead of spending money on advertising, John decided to create an email containing information about the site along with a link and send this email to such email address 100 in the contact list. If 1 person out of a hundred buy this book john get $ 10. What if he would send an email to the email address 1000s. He got $ 100. Imagine, if he sent this email to the email address 1 million he earned $ 100,000.
Now I hope you understand the idea behind spamming. So in order to make money, email spammers advertising them as much as possible without any respect the privacy of the recipient.
Where do spammers get my email address?
On the Internet there are many sites that collect email ID people and sell them to spammers in bulk. Most often, the people who sign up for monthly newsletter and take surveys. This is the time in which the fraud sites are getting their email address. Also, many spammers collect email addresses using spambots. Spambots collect email addresses from the Internet in order to build mailing lists. As spambots are web crawlers that can gather email addresses from web sites, newsgroups, forums, special interest group (SIG) postings, and chat room conversations.
Spammers use this trick to create Hoax Emails to gather a large list of email ID. For example, a spammer sends an email scam that says "Forward this message to Help is Burned Children". This email claims that 11 cents will be donated to children's family every time a message is sent to someone else. Most people believe this and the scam was started forwarding the email to all the ID in their contact list. In this way the email that spread quickly and eventually when it reaches the creator (spammers), the spammers have a large list of valid email addresses in the email header. When you get this kind of hoax emails, you can see yourself in the email header contains a large list of email addresses of all persons to whom the email was forwarded to. This is one of effective methods used by spammers to collect email addresses.
Is Spamming laws?
Really spamming illegal. But very difficult to stop spamming the spammers because they are constantly moving from another hosting company after getting banned. This makes it nearly impossible to catch spammers and bring them to justice.
How to protect my email account to get SPAMmed?
The following methods can be used to combat spam emails.
1. Use a spam filter for your email account. If you use email services like Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc., then the spam filter used by defaut. Each spam filter's algorithm to detect spam and will automatically move it to the SPAM folder. This makes your inbox free from spam. However, some spam emails to be successful to make their way into the inbox with successfully through the filter.
2. Do not post your email address in public forums, user comments and chat-rooms. Provide your email address only to Web sites that can be trusted when you sign up for the newsletter.
3. While taking online surveys and fill out feedback forms, it is better to not give your personal email address. In contrast to singup dummy email account and use this to surveys and other forms of feedback.
4. While post your contact email address on your website using this format: emailaddress [at] emailaddress@yoursite.com yoursite.com instead. This will protect your email address from the indexed by spambots.
5. Not responding to hoax messages. When you receive an email scam, avoid forward to your friends. Example of hoax messages can be found in www.hoax-slayer.com. If you really want to forward it to your friends, make sure that you use the "Bcc" (blind copy) option to send an email. This will hide all the email ID letter forwarded to.
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