Spamming Spamming 419eater.com is a website dedicated to scam baiting by individuals who have turned the tables on 419 fraud con artists. These are people who use email to try to fool people into sending money with the promise of a large reward or request for assistance. While the majority of the scammers targeted are perpetrators of an advance fee fraud scam, there are others who solicit donations without promise of a return on investment. ...more on Wikipedia about "419eater.com"
Address munging is the practise of disguising, or munging, an e-mail address to prevent it being automatically collected and used as a target for people and organisations who send unsolicited bulk e-mail. ...more on Wikipedia about "Address munging"
Advance fee fraud, often also known as the Nigerian money transfer fraud, Nigerian scam or 419 scam after the relevant section of the Nigerian Criminal Code that it violates ** , is a fraudulent scheme to extract money from victims after making them believe they will get an immense fortune. Victims are requested to pay an upfront fee before their purported fortune is released. ...more on Wikipedia about "Advance fee fraud"
American Language Center was the most prominent and the most famous spammer in Russia around 2002-2003. As the name suggests, the company is a language center that taught American English, with the emphasis on verbal skills. The company is based in Moscow. ...more on Wikipedia about "American Language Center"
Deployed at the gateway or in front of the mail server, anti-spam appliances are hardware-based solutions integrated with on-board anti-spam software and are normally driven by an operating system optimized for spam filtering. They are generally used in larger networks such as companies and corporations, ISPs, universities, etc. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anti-spam appliances"
Apex Global Internet Services was an internet backbone provider with pro- spam policies. At one point in the late 1990's, AGIS was the service provider to virtually all of the spam sites on the internet, including most notably Sanford Wallace. AGIS steadfastly refused to take action against spamming customers. ...more on Wikipedia about "Apex Global Internet Services"
The Anti-Spam Research Group or ASRG is a research group within the IRTF dedicated to research into curbing spam on an Internet-wide level. It consists of a set of mailing lists to coordinate work and a small web site. ...more on Wikipedia about "ASRG"
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BIF spam or B.I.F. spam is an incident of spamming that displays pornographic visual content when the email is opened. The anagram B.I.F. (rhymes with "if") literally stands for "boobs in face" (or, slightly more politely, "breasts in face") and is among the more common types of spam. "Getting BIFed" is the expression used to describe being the unwitting recipient of such a message. ...more on Wikipedia about "BIF spam"
Bookmark spam is a type of spam affecting social bookmarking, social software websites such as del.icio.us. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bookmark spam"
Botnet is a jargon term for a collection of software robots, or bots, which run autonomously. A botnet's originator can control the group remotely, usually through a means such as IRC, and usually for nefarious purposes. ...more on Wikipedia about "Botnet"
The Boulder Pledge is a personal promise, first coined by Roger Ebert, not to purchase anything offered through email spam. The pledge is worded as follows: ...more on Wikipedia about "Boulder Pledge"
The Distributed Server Boycott List is a DNSBL that lists IP addresses of insecure hosts. DSBL can be used by server administrators to tag or block e-mail messages that come from insecure servers, often spam. ...more on Wikipedia about "Distributed Server Boycott List"
A DNS-based Blackhole List, or DNSBL, is a means by which an Internet site may publish a list of IP addresses, in a format which can be easily queried by computer programs on the Internet. As the name suggests, the technology is built on top of the Internet DNS or Domain Name System. DNSBLs are chiefly used to publish lists of addresses linked to spamming. Most mail transport agent (mail server) software can be configured to reject or flag messages which have been sent from a site listed on one or more such lists. ...more on Wikipedia about "DNSBL"
E-mail marketing is a form of direct marketing which uses electronic mail as a means of communicating commercial or fundraising messages to an audience. In its broadest sense, every email sent to a potential or current customer could be considered email marketing. However, the term is usually used to refer to: ...more on Wikipedia about "E-mail marketing"
Email spam is a subset of spam that involves sending nearly identical messages to thousands (or millions) of recipients. Perpetrators of such spam ("spammers") often harvest addresses of prospective recipients from Usenet postings or from web pages, obtain them from databases, or simply guess them by using common names and domains. By definition, spam occurs without the permission of the recipients. ...more on Wikipedia about "E-mail spam"
E-mail spoofing is a technique commonly used for spam email and phishing to hide the origin of an e-mail message. This involves changing certain properties of the e-mail, such as the From, Return-Path and Reply-To fields (which can be found in the message header) to make the e-mail appear to be from someone other than the actual sender. ...more on Wikipedia about "E-mail spoofing"
Email harvesting is the process of obtaining lists of email addresses for use in bulk mail or other purposes usually grouped as spam. Methods range from purchasing lists of email addresses from other spammers to the more common use of special software, known as "harvesting software", "harvesting bots" or "harvesters", which scan web pages, postings on Usenet, mailing list archives and other online sources to obtain email addresses. ...more on Wikipedia about "Email address harvesting"
Ensuring a valid identity on an email has become a vital first step in stopping spam, forgery, fraud, and even more serious crimes. An essential second step will be Ensuring the entity has a good reputation. Unfortunately, the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) that handles most email today was designed in an era when users of the Internet were mostly honest techies who expected others to be equally honest. This article will explain how email identities are forged and the steps that are being taken now to prevent it. ...more on Wikipedia about "Email authentication"
Fraud has existed perhaps as long or longer than money. Any new sociological change can engender new forms of fraud, or other crime. Almost as soon as email became widely used, it began to be used to defraud people via Email fraud. Email fraud can take the form of a "con game" or scam. Confidence tricks tend to exploit the inherent greed and dishonesty of their victims: the prospect of a 'bargain' or 'something for nothing' can be very tempting. Email fraud, as with other ' bunco schemes' relies on naive individuals who put their confidence in get-rich-quick schemes such as 'too good to be true' investments or offers to sell popular items at 'impossibly low' prices. Many people have lost their life savings due to fraud. ...more on Wikipedia about "Email fraud"
Employment Scams, also know as Job Scams, are a form of Advance fee fraud scamming where certain unscrupulous persons posing as recruiters and/or employers offer attractive employment opportunities which require the job seeker to pay them money in advance, usually under the guise of work visas, travel expenses, and out-of-pocket expenses. ...more on Wikipedia about "Employment Scams"
Flyposting is the act of putting advertising posters or flyers in illegal places. In the US, these posters are known as bandit signs or street spam. ...more on Wikipedia about "Flyposting"
Although spamming has existed on on the Internet since as early as 1978, the first major spamming incidents didn't take place until the early 1990s. ...more on Wikipedia about "History of spamming"
In computer terminology, a honeypot is a trap set to detect, deflect or in some manner counteract attempts at unauthorized use of information systems. Generally it consists of a computer, data or a network site that appears to be part of a network but which is actually isolated and protected, and which seems to contain information or a resource that would be of value to attackers. A honeypot that masquerades as an open proxy is known as a sugarcane. ...more on Wikipedia about "Honeypot"
A joe job is an incident of spamming designed to tarnish the reputation of an innocent third party. Despite having existed since at least 1996, joe jobs are uncommon compared to other types of spam because they provide no commercial benefit to the joe jobber. ...more on Wikipedia about "Joe job"
Link spam (also called blog spam or comment spam) is a form of spamming or spamdexing that recently became publicized most often when targeting weblogs (or blogs), but also affects wikis (where it is often called wikispam), guestbooks, and online discussion boards. Any web application that displays hyperlinks submitted by visitors or the referring URLs of web visitors may be a target. ...more on Wikipedia about "Link spam"
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