Review are based on "New Spamming Tactics" which posted on the My E-Commerce blog.
Spamming would be arise as irritating issues for almost everyone for us. How to consider an email is a spam mail? When you received a particular email which from the unknown source, unknown organization, or unknown person such situation may consider that the email is a spam mail. Such email would create harm to us if we simply clicked it because of our curiousity.
Although Anti-Spamware are available in current, but it is not 100% guaranteed that it will avoid your computer from receiving any spam mail. Initially, spam mail or junk mail were for the advertisement purpose because an organization would save alot of cost by advertise their product through network.You may asked "Who is the first to send spam mail and how spam email start to spread on the network?" Well according to Brad who discussed the spamming issues in this particular hyperlink
http://www.templetons.com/brad/spamterm.html, he said that the first spam were discovered in the year 1978 which is from the marketer of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). You may not heard of DEC because this company were owned by Compaq. Previously, DEC was the leader in minicomputer market.
http://www.templetons.com/brad/spamterm.html, he said that the first spam were discovered in the year 1978 which is from the marketer of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). You may not heard of DEC because this company were owned by Compaq. Previously, DEC was the leader in minicomputer market.
DEC wanted to promote his new product (DED-20), thus they decided to send a notice to everybody on the ARPANET (which previously there was a printed directory of everybody on ARPANET which they used as source for the list)
For the time being, there are several new spamming method appeared in the network, which is PDF spam, Piggyback spam, and Greeting card spam.
For the time being, there are several new spamming method appeared in the network, which is PDF spam, Piggyback spam, and Greeting card spam.
User may become a victim of spam in an unawareness situation, like PDF spam. Because most of the spam filter unable to screen the content of the PDF.file. Thus, users may click such PDF file and read it.
Piggyback spam come with higher graphical looking, and it create mind set for user that such mail is came from large retailers. The link contained in the email will lead to the installation of the melware or spyware once you clicked it. After that, such spam mail will send out from your computer to anothers. Such situation just like exactly the term "piggyback" because you'll turn out to be the one who carry a spam mail at your back and send it to others.
For the Greeting Card spam, it cause more harmful to us. Because it contained viruses with it. Users may not aware and click such link to see the greeting card but end up their computer will attacked by virus. If you're curious about it, and you want to give a shoot for this, make sure you have the lastest and strong anti-virus software. But such action are not recommended by me. Try at your own risk!
Here is some recommendation, before clicking any links from the unknown email. Please check where such link is directed by scroll your mouse over the link.
Stay Alert! Don't become a victim of spam mail or the lastest spam method like I mentioned above because of your curiousity.
For further knowledge of the solution by prevent yourself to become one of the victims, you make refer to this link http://ecommerze.blogspot.com/2007/08/new-spamming-tactics.html which disccused by our Universities Senior Lecturer Mr. Hen.
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Sources:
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- http://www.templetons.com/brad/spamterm.html
- http://ecommerze.blogspot.com/2007/08/new-spamming-tactics.html
Pictures or images
- http://www.seobook.com/images/email-spam.gif
- http://www.malwarecity.com/images/Blog/spam%20omelette%2016.jpg
- http://tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:MsTqIG0nshoG2M:http://news.cnet.com/i/ne/pg/fd_2005/051018_spam_184x138.jpg
- http://www.itmcomputing.com/newsletter/images/piggyback.png
- http://tbn3.google.com/images?q=tbn:EGYTgtmLXIeH6M:http://www.sassistas.com/sassistas_our_dish_on_the/images/2008/10/31/spam-o-lantern.jpg
- http://www.loadedtech.com.au/Portals/0/iStock_000003778439XSmall.jpg
- http://www.oplin.org/meanlaura/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/spam.png
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