Spamming is the abuse of electronic messaging systems to indiscriminately send unsolicited bulk messages. It is the flooding of electronic mail systems with 'junk e-mail'. While the most widely recognized form of spam is: - E-mail spam ~ is the practice of sending unwanted e-mail messages, frequently with commercial content, in large quantities to an indiscriminate set of recipients.
- Instant messaging spam ~ makes use of instant messaging systems, such as Window Live Messenger. Many instant messaging systems offer a user directory, including demographic information that allows an advertiser to gather the information, sign on to the system, and send unsolicited messages.
- Wed search engine spam~ the practice on the World Wide Web of modifying HTML pages to increase the chances of them being placed high on Search engine relevancy lists.
- Mobile phone messaging spam~ is a form of spamming directed at the text messaging service of a mobile phone.
- Newsgroup spam ~ is a type of spam where the targets are Usenet Newsgroups.
Spam can be used to spread computer viruses, trojan horses or other malicious software. The objective may be identity theft, or worse. Some spam attempts to capitalize on human greed whilst other attempts to use the victims' inexperience with computer technology to trick them. For example, phishing.
An anti-spam software can helps to reduce the influx of the unsolicited e-mails tremendously, where spam mails are easily filter out and diverted to the spam folders. But yet, this anti-spam software is not a complete solution to the spam problems. The spammers are now coming out with new tactics to outsmart this anti-spam software. These new tactics are: PDF spam, piggyback spam, and greeting card spam.However, there are still have solution to overcome these new tactics:
- PDF spam ~ If you come across any e-mail message that has a PDF file attached but no text in the message area, just delete it.
- Piggyback spam ~ If you receive any e-mail from a retailer you’ve never heard or agreed to receive email from, just delete it immediately.
- Greeting card spam ~ Delete any e-card received from unknown person.
Other than the above solutions, we can also use the following steps to avoid the spamming problems:
- Before clicking on any links, hovers your mouse cursor over the link.
- A full Internet address will appear.
- Study the full Internet address for a moment, even if you do not know exactly how to interpret it.
- If you see numbers or words does not correspond to the company that send you the email, delete it immediately.
- If you see an “.exe” or “.com” at the end of the address, delete it immediately too.
- Flag the spam for your spam filter to improve it catch rate.
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