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”

• in Lifestyle
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• in Business
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• in Social Media
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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “spam”

 

• When Gmails Filters Arent Enough: How to Tackle Spam on Your Own

  
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  If youre really lucky, not a ton of spam makes its way into your inbox. Email providers have never been better at blocking it and filtering it to your spam filter without you lifting a finger. However, you still probably get newsletters youve tried unsubscribing from, updates for services you dont use, or ...
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• Tips And Information To Make E-mail Marketing Work For Your Business

  
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  TIP! Personalize your emails wherever possible. When a business is more personal, they feel that they can better relate to them. Internet business owners often wonder what they could do to maximize their sales and get more profit from their business. If this sounds familiar to you, then you need to consider an e-mail ...
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• Dogs don’t understand escalators

  
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  Just look at him, he probably thinks it’s all him over there.
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• Independent Contractor Relationship Between Sender and Advertiser Dooms Spam Claims – Kramer v. NCS

  
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  [Post by Venkat Balasubramani] Kramer v. NCS, 12-1956 (8th Cir. May 28, 2013) Kramer, who operated an internet service provider...
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• Tales of Spam: Part 3

  
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  I greatly enjoy spam emails that try to convince you that they’re going to share some kind of secret trick for getting into the pants of random women, because the whole thing is basically someone telling you that they have a cheat code for life. Trust me, it doesn’t exist. I’ve entered the Konami code on a pair ...
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• Being a dog is like being in a video game

  
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  So that’s why dogs are so happy all the time, no matter what.
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• Remove We-care.com popup virus. How to uninstall

  
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  We-care.com malware is a notorious and annoying browser infection that causes your Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari and Internet explorer to display We-care.com popups. Those pop-ups are commercial advertisements/product promotions that make profit for the creators of http://We-care.com virus but this thing dose not ...
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• How To Choose The Right E-mail Marketing Program

  
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  TIP! Make every effort to strike a personal tone in your emails. As with other types of marketing, customers will be more likely to purchase items from you if you add a personal touch. It is important to not bury your clientele in an exceedingly large number of unwanted emails.Your message for every email should [...]
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• ccTLD Outage; Yahoo To Recycle Usernames. Domain Name Registrants Beware.

  
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  Hat tip to Erik J. Heels, Steve Jones and Shaun Pilford. Tonight the risks of ccTLDs; The cost of the massive payment card hack could cost Schnucks  $80 million in Illinois alone, Bogus comments from fake accounts hit Vine; With lots of water and the cool Nordic climate, Facebook is lowering its cost to operate a ...
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• Portent Study: Google Penguin Shows Declining Tolerance for Spam

  
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  Seattle, WA (PRWEB) March 18, 2013 A new study by Internet marketing firm Portent shows that Google has been steadily reducing its tolerance for manipulative search engine optimization tactics since launching its Penguin update almost a year ago. The Portent analysis found Google has been applying a ...
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• Hacked Off

  
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  Hello, hello, hello...If you are on my email list I AM VERY SORRY!!!!!  After 14 years with the same email address I was HACKED today and SPAM emails went out to everyone in my email list and that, over 14 years has become quiet huge.  I cant possibly send and email out to everyone in my list as there are too many ...
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• How the Web was Built: A Brief Timeline

  
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  There are a lot of people, from Al Gore to Professor Leonard Kleinrock, have been credited for “inventing the Internet.” The truth is that, not unlike Rome, the Internet wasn’t built in a day. The technologies that formed the backbone of the Internet’s communication system came in leaps and spurts, mostly from ...
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• Collecting all website contact e-mails on Windows – Contact Email Extractor

  
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  For second week, Im partially working in E-marketing agency. Its an education institution, so they need to harvest e-mails for possible contacts to send them advertisements about University Scholarships , offered Study Streams in university, events Uni corriculum etc. Hence I did a quick research to see if there is ...
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• Gadgetwise Blog: Q&A: Protecting a PC From Spam and Spoofs

  
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  Spam messages coming from a friend’s e-mail account could be caused by a virus, a hacker or another malicious source.        
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• Q&A: Protecting a PC From Spam and Spoofs

  
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  Spam messages coming from a friends e-mail account could be caused by a virus, a hacker or another malicious source.
  6 days ago

• Bad proxy and bot ban (Miscellaneous)

  
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  Purchase $9.00 With this small but powerfull PHP application you will be able to ban the unwanted proxies,bots and spams from your website or web application. The lists are available on http://iblocklist.com and you can choose which one to use and update with only one click.
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• MailWasher PRO 2013 7.1.0 With Crack Free Download

  
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  Information MailWasher Pro is a useful anti-spam program designed to help you manage your email accounts better. It works by letting you preview all your email at your internet service provider and remove all unwanted email before it gets to your computer. With an easy to use message table, you can preview ...
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• Google Penguin 2.0 – Has it affected your website?

  
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  Built for Search Built for Search - SEO, CRO & Web Design Services On April 24th 2012, Google launched their Penguin update. Unlike the Panda update that preceded it, which focused on the quality of webpages, Google Penguin was concerned with web spam. What is web spam? Well, many people would probably argue ...
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• Are We Still Using CAPTCHAs to Stop Form Spam?

  
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  Quick note: In reviewing this post with some non-technical friends, I realized that many people aren’t familiar with the term CAPTCHA. A CAPTCHA (or Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart) is the item pictured below -  an awkwardly hard to read combination of “letters” and ...
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• Spam Topics We Are Likely To See

  
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  Just recently, illegitimate emails from wallmart.mail.com have been making the rounds and sending those who click on the links in the message to a website that installs malware on their computer. The message, spoofed to look like an order, claims that a television set for just under $1000 was ordered, and paid for by ...
  6 days ago

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