Get To Know Spam In General
Spam is flooding the Internet with many copies of the same message, in an attempt to force the message on people who would not otherwise choose to receive it. Most spam is commercial advertising, often for dubious products, get-rich-quick schemes, or quasi-legal services.
You have probably notice the increase in the amount of junk mail which shows up in your email box, or on your favorite newsgroup. This kind of activities from a small number of people are becoming a bigger problem since the emergence of Internet technology booming. Fair to say it is also becoming a threat in our daily internet usage. It has become more and more unsolicited weaponry that as powerful as to unlock your database in a slightest mistake by us.
Chain letters that ask for money, whether for reports or just straight up, are illegal in the US whether they are in postal mail or e-mail. It has become a global alert in recent times. It is simply a fraudulent act that just giving a bad name to the good of technology and internet rise.
You may see e-mail coming from Nigeria or another African country, sent by someone who wants to use your bank account to transfer 20 million dollars. This is called a '419' scam and people have been killed over it.
Spam costs the sender very little to send
Most of the costs are paid for by the recipient or the carriers rather than by the sender. To the recipient, spam is easily recognizable.
If you hired someone to read your mail and discard the spam, they would have little trouble doing it. How much do we have to do, short of AI, to automate this process? I think we will be able to solve the problem with fairly simple algorithms.
One particularly nasty variant of email spam is sending spam to mailing lists (public or private email discussion forums).
Due to mailing lists activity limitations to their subscribers, spammers will use automated tools to subscribe to as many mailing lists as possible.
They can easily grab the lists of addresses, or use the mailing list as a direct target for their attacks.
We are constantly being bombarded with crap emails on a regular basis. Ninety-five percent of the time I just swipe and delete the emails without looking at them, unless there is something there to grab my attention, which is an another entire training in itself.
Thanks for sharing,
Brian
Reply
No surprise if one-day "spam" has the ability of self-launching attacks once manage to be anywhere inside our inbox. Might be I am just too far thinking in that respect.
Welcome Sir
