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Something for nothing: Take a lighter look at spam scams

The Spam Letters is a collection of entertaining and illuminating correspondence with the people who send out mass junk e-mailings aka spam. Compiled from the nearly 200 entries written by Jonathan Land, The Spam Letters taunts, prods, and parodies the faceless salespeople in your inbox, giving you a...

Tags: Chapter, Publisher, Spam Letters, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Advertising & Promotion, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Marketing

Book chapters 2007-07-26

Additional Resources

Out Spam 1.1 (Windows)

Out Spam is a spam filter program. It can remove junk letters from a POP3 mail server without downloading them to a client computer. The principal way to separate mail is the use of worldwide black lists of spam mail servers. The program can also filter letters by languages and...

Tags: Program, Microsoft Windows, Mode, Brigsoft, E-mail Servers, Enterprise Software, Software

Software downloads 2005-03-28

Getting Started With Bulk e-mail

I am interested in sending bulk e-mails and need to learn the process of how to go about setting that up, what software is available, tutorials - anything that will give me information on what to do to accomplish this. I have tried searching the internet, but perhaps I am...

Tags: newsletter, Public execution, spammer, e-mail, bulk e-mail, e-mail campaign, randirushe@...

Discussion threads 2006-08-31

What every CIO must know about stopping spam

Spam has recently started garnering more attention because of its chokehold on network bandwidth. Brightmail, which sends out automated antispam updates many times a day, maintains a "Probe Network" of about 200 million e-mail boxes to collect spam. The numbers aren’t encouraging. According to the company, which extrapolates Internet-wide numbers...

Tags: Carl Weinschenk, e-mail, spam, spammer

Technical articles 2003-07-23

Software vs. appliance: A first look at the Barracuda Spam Firewall

Spam Firewall - highly recommendedI had one of the original ones about 5 years ago and ever since it reduced our environment 95% SPAM drop with a low false negative approximately around .05%. The Outlook plug-in was great feature for our users so you provided them some sense of...

Tags: Spam, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, software, AT&T Corp., spam message, Spam Firewall

Discussion threads 2008-02-06

Understand how various spam software works

There are four major types of spam fighting technology. We discuss those types here. When considering how to protect your mail system from spam, you'll find that there are way too many choices in the marketplace to be able to possibly evaluate them all. Since each solution ...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Scott Lowe MCSE, spammer, Bayesian, spam, E-mail Administration Tips Newsletter, Software, Pro, Filter, E-mail, Security, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications

Technical articles 2005-06-24

Email flagged as Junk/Spam

Most of our email have been flagged as SpamHotnail, AOL, and many major corp.Gmail receives email okWe have an exchange server, I have called sbc to setup a PTR record for email.bhccrane.com IP 206.171.90.242My server dosnt seem to be an Open RelayI am running out of ideas. Any suggestions?Copy of...

Tags: pilot80@..., Google Gmail, e-mail, spam, domain, server

Discussion threads 2007-11-06

I got spam!

I got spam!I thought everyone might like to read this small missive I fired off after one of our members here used the TR member database to fire off a poorly written marketing letter for her organization.Enjoy!_______________________________________________Dear Kevin Hickey, President and CEO, of NetPro:Perhaps you could explain to your employee...

Tags: BFilmFan, how to screw a spammer's friday up, network, off-topic, security, spam, spam replies, TR Member, TR member database

Discussion threads 2005-06-17

North Carolina man sentenced to 9 years for spam

BURN HIMWhat makes this one person different than the rest? Can we lock them all up and make their family pay the court/jail costs for the 9 years.Burn Him9 years is not a long time. He will be out on parole in less than 2 years. Of course he will...

Tags: Cyberthreats, E-mail, Spam, GOOD, Burn

Discussion threads 2004-11-04

Chain letters

Hello, my name is Basmati Kasaar.I am suffering from rare and deadly diseases, poor scores onfinal exams, extreme virginity, and fear of being kidnapped andexecuted by anal electrocution. I also suffer from the guilt ofnot forwarding 50 billion flucking chain letters sent to me bypeople who actually believe that if...

Tags: elderly woman

Discussion threads 2009-02-18

NOT detctable Spam mail Server Problem

I am getting 4-10 emails daily from different domain names with subject "delivery status Failure". Which I have never mailed to. Now I have Norton Internet Security 2003 and other Antiviruses as Onguard. Though I have doubt that some sort of SPAM mail server have been installed on my Desktop...

Tags: e-mail, e-mail server, parthiv_13@..., server

Q&A 2005-04-25

Blog comment spam

What is with these twits that post comments on blogs, that have no connection to the content of the blog entry?the majority seem to have a gmail email address.[ they all have just a mashup of letters for names. ]The latest one on my blog entry about standards compliancy is...

Tags: Blogging, Jaqui, blog, blog entry

Discussion threads 2007-10-08

I Hate Aol

I tried to get out of the AOL Service one time and they kept on and on about why do I want to cancel they will give me three months free if I would stay with them. I did that three times. Gah I could have had free aol for...

Tags: Cyberthreats, SECURITY, josh.copeland, America Online Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-07-17

Get IT Done: Use our policy to defend against e-mail misuse

125Since e-mail has become the communication choice of so many people, many end users treat their corporate e-mail accounts just as they do their personal e-mail accounts. In addition to normal work messaging, they might send and receive an occasional e-mail with friends and family or trade a few jokes.Most...

Tags: Get IT Done, Mike Walton, e-mail, spam

Technical articles 2002-03-18

Sender ID's fading message

Sender ID's fading messagearticle rootSender ID's fading messageAs online scams increase, confidence in e-mail falls. If legitimate businesses don't sign up for Sender ID or similar technologies, that trend could continue and undermine e-mail's usefulness. Currently, quite a few of the technology's adopters are spammers, trying to get their messages...

Tags: anti-spam, authentication, e-mail, email, Email Authentication, security, Sender ID, Sonja Thompson, spam, SPF

Discussion threads 2005-08-09

Hijacked email address

HiSo this morning I opened up outlook, and watched as 2500 emails came in from various mail programs telling em the email I sent had failed.Only thing is I am not sending these emails. They are all spam base viagra, stock tips, cheap rolexes etc. It seems someone is sending...

Tags: Cyberthreats, spam, e-mail, e-mail address

Discussion threads 2008-04-20

Decision Support: The goal of enterprise antispam programs

By Joyce GraffThe goal of an enterprise antispam program is to sort out the "good guys" from the "bad guys" and empower the end users to control their own desktop environments. The bad guys of e-mail consist of:Pure trash spam (messages from senders that don't exist, confidence games).Chain letters, hoaxes,...

Tags: anti-spam, bad guy, Brightmail Inc., decision support, Fighting Spam, Gartner  , Postini Corp., spam

Technical articles 2003-01-22

Empty Email

Recently I have been receiving email with no subject line and nothing in the body nor any attachments.I have passed these off as poorly assembled spam mail.Now I have received several of these with my own email address as the sender.Anybody have a clue as to what this is?SpamPhishing for...

Tags: bob@..., e-mail, image, security

Discussion threads 2004-12-22

Making the case for registered e-mail servers

Making the case for registered e-mail serversarticle rootNothing worked with postal junk mailPostal junk mail is a huge problem even though the cost of sending it is substantial. On most days my mailbox is literally full of junk mail with literally no legitimate mail. Frankly, it's far worse than my...

Tags: advertisement, DC Guy, e-mail, e-mail server, security, server

Discussion threads 2005-06-24

Decision Support: Steps to take so you can avoid the spammer label

By Tim LandgraveThere's only one thing worse than being put through an audit by the Internal Revenue Service—trying to get your company's e-mail server removed from the AOL blacklist. In its zealousness to protect its users from spam, AOL has implemented a set of rules that block e-mail servers that...

Tags: America Online Inc., decision support, e Advantage, e-mail, e-mail address, e-mail server, server

Technical articles 2003-07-22