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.

 

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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.
  5 days ago

• 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 ...
  6 days ago

• 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 ...
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• My Second Spam Poem: Automated Suicide Hotline or The Machine That Wanted To Be More

  
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  To learn more about what spam poetry is or how this was composed, read this post first. *       *       * It’s truly very difficult in this busy… Read More →
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• Beneficial Spam

  
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  Im not a huge fan of spam of any kind.  With respect to blogging, spam is usually comment spam or some type of solicitation like trying to get me to blog about whatever they are selling, selling being them wanting me to blog about their latest, greatest topic or promote them in some fashion.  Well, yesterday I ...
  1 week 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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• Fake Amazon emails spread malware

  
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  2spyware security center announces about the widespread attack, which works under the name of Amazon. It seems that it is set to attack United Kingdom in the first place because this virus spreads via emails presented as the message from its UK branch. If you happen to receive an email, which has the attachment about ...
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• How To Stop Spam Comments In Your Blog

  
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  There is nothing as bad as having spam comments in your blog. You will spend a lot of time deleting those comment and or selecting the real comments that was suppose to add value to your blog. The post will enlighten you and also teach you how to disable and stop spam comments from your blog. MUST READ:  ...
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• The Comments Are Closed

  
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  Audrey Watters , Hack Education , May 17, 2013 I have always thought people should comment on their own site and link to or reference others. But the internet developed differently, with people (and companies) trying to draw users into theoir own sites (the better to show them advertising). Hence, the discussion ...
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