spam

Spam is the transmission of unsolicited messages to e-mail accounts, Internet forums, cell phones, instant messaging systems, and video sharing sites. These ubiquitous messages bombard us daily and can bring mild amusement or major annoyance.

They entice with promises of wealth, employment, romance, or sexual enhancement but rarely deliver the intended results. While some are harmless, many are scams meant to trick readers into sending money or financial information. Still others contain worms that allow a spammer access to a user’s personal computer. It’s no surprise that bloggers turn to the Web to seek or offer advice and to vent their frustration over the constant threat spam poses to their computers and cell phones.

Though spam filters exist and a few spammers have been identified and held accountable for their mass mailings, legislation to ban or monitor spam varies from state to state and is often difficult to enforce. Spammers have also become increasingly savvy to the techniques used to block or suss them out. Spam levels are on the rise, and such messages will likely continue their assault on electronic forms of communication for some time to come.

 

Original Technorati articles tagged “spam”

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “spam”

 

• How to Stop the Spread of Malware? A Call for Action

  
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  On Webwereld an article was published (in Dutch) following a new Kaspersky malware report Q1-2013. Nothing new was mentioned here. The Netherlands remains the number 3 as far as sending malware from Dutch servers is concerned. At the same time Kaspersky writes that The Netherlands is one of the most safe countries ...
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• instant spam curry

  
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  When I saw this at the market I knew I had to try it...Instant Spam Curry.Made by Okinawa Hormel, the curry comes with potatoes, carrots and spam.The spiciness was medium hot, but I thought the spam was a bit spongy. Oh well, it was worth trying.
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• Take A Hint

  
  Viktoria Michaelis: Secrets & Desires — Authority: 143
  I doubt very much that any spammers will read this simply because they are concentrating on one single post at the moment, and I doubt they’ve even read that either. But, just in case: Give it up. I mean, yesterday I had over five hundred attempted spams on one single post here. Think about it, five hundred! And ...
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• Google Slaps Sprint For Spammy Community Forum - Search Engine Roundtable

  
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  Google Slaps Sprint For Spammy Community Forum Search Engine Roundtable sprint logo The next large brand to be penalized by Google is Sprint, the large U.S. wireless provider. A Google Webmaster Help thread has Kent Van Deusen, the Sprint website support representative, asking where is this "user-generated ...
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• When Spam Comes Knocking: If Spam Could Talk

  
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  Spam. The sleaziest of the sleazy. If only spam could talk, what would it tell us? Therein lies the conundrum, because if we are to use only the product – the waste product – of the spammer as evidence of its existence, then what we’re left with is the impression of a pure idiot. Honestly, read this and tell us ...
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• Google Notifies Sprint Of Spam Penalty; Seeks Advice In Google Help Forums

  
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  The latest large brand to be hit with a user generated content spam penalty notification is Sprint, the large U.S. wireless communications company. Similar to Mozillas penalty and BBCs penalty, Sprint was penalized for user-generated content spam on a portion of their site that was... Please visit Search Engine... ...
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• Google Notifies Sprint Of Spam Penalty; Seeks Advice In Google Help Forums

  
  Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing — Authority: 720
  The latest large brand to be hit with a user generated content spam penalty notification is Sprint, the large U.S. wireless communications company. Similar to Mozilla’s penalty and BBC’s penalty, Sprint was penalized for user-generated content spam on a portion of their site that was... Please visit Search Engine ...
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• Great Technology Ideas For Anyone Running A Blog

  
  Make Money Blogging | Free Tips & Resources To Become A Highly Paid Blogger! www.BlogCurry.com — Authority: 160
  TIP! Do not make too much use of keywords, ads, images or plug-ins on your blog. Overusing your tools will cause search engines to mark your website as spam, which will put you behind. Writing A Blog is about posting your opinion on a site of your own site. Doing this will allow you the [...]
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• The man who nearly broke the internet

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Sven Olaf Kamphuis is accused of global cybercrime, but Spanish police found him in a squalid flat with his name on the letterbox The day Sven Olaf Kamphuis parked his huge orange Mercedes van with its German numberplates outside Bar Javis, in the Catalan town of Granollers, the owners son snapped a picture with his ...
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• The ritual is complete

  
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  Most probably they’re summoning Satan.
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• Worst SPAM Comment Ever

  
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  I get dozens of SPAM comments every week (in my SPAM filter of course). The wording is often generic sounding, but get a load of this thing. It’s like a form for generating generic comments, but instead of choosing from the form words they just pasted the whole thing. Can you imagine a blogger going “Seems ...
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• Scammers use fake telephone support for extorting money

  
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  Day by day, scammers use smarter methods for swindling the money from PC users. After relying on alerts that report about invented threats and then offer to purchase useless program, now they are starting a new era of tricking their victims. It is based on a misleading telephone support, which promises to fix the PC ...
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• How Musical Spammers play Streaming Services

  
  Nerdcore — Authority: 157
  The Echo Nest ist wohl die größte Datenbank rund um Musik, die sie Streaming-Services per API zur Verfügung stellt und mit der die sich dann Empfehlungsfunktionen und sowas basteln können. Jetzt haben sie in einem ziemlich spannenden Posting aufgeschrieben , mit welchen Methoden sich musikalische Spammer auf ...
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• It’s Just Sad

  
  Viktoria Michaelis: Secrets & Desires — Authority: 143
  I’d be laughing into my morning coffee if it wasn’t just so sad. I’m not talking about anything real, a sob story or anything like that, but something which appears to be real for some people and is sad simply because they really believe in it. And also a bit sad because one of the posts gaining the most ...
  6 days ago

• Spam vs. Viral

  
  Damn, I Wish I'd Thought of That! — Authority: 137
  Seth Godin is a man who defined honest and effective email for all of us. Permission Marketing and Unleashing the Ideavirus are required reading for our team. Here’s a healthy reminder of the biggest ideas in email from two of Seth’s recent blog posts: Is this spam? If you have to ask, it probably ...
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• Will spam calls ever stop? - USA Today - USA TODAY

  
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  Will spam calls ever stop? - USA Today USA TODAY I was not among the last contingent, nor did I think to complain about the latest round of spam calls: As I suspect many of you do, I deleted the messages from our answering machine and went on with my life. The two-page complaint form asks a few ... ...
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• Truecaller Free Spam Call Filter

  
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  Truecaller Free Spam Call Filter help you in identifying the spam calls from the real calls. Download this best app and enjoy the most accurate name and phone number lookup app globally with Caller ID. Truecaller enables you to search half a billion phone numbers worldwide, keeps your phone book beautiful and ...
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• WoW: Druid Tricks

  
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  I have 3 nice tricks and an exploit for all you druids who still play World of Warcraft. A couple of them can even be used in PvP so don’t be surprised if you come across an invincible Bear form Druid soon. Get on top of random roofs/areas: Simply have wild mushroom and place on [...]
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• WordPress Anniversary: Comment Spam Lessons

  
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  It’s hard to believe that I’ve learned much from comment spammers over the years. I’ve learned that they are among the most hated folks in the world, yet you have to respect them as well. As I look back on ten years of blogging with WordPress on this 10th Anniversary year, I realized that comment […]
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• How to report spam e-mail sent to your iCloud account - CNET (blog)

  
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  How to report spam e-mail sent to your iCloud account CNET (blog) Fighting spam is a constant cat-and-mouse game and one every e-mail provider faces. I receive my fair share of spam e-mail on my iCloud e-mail account, and for the longest time have just deleted them without opening, figuring it would ...
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