“Phishing” can be referred as some sort of scam which is intended to deceive the recipient to make him or her disclose sensitive data such as credit card numbers, security passwords, or other sorts of private information. So identity theft is generally the aim of this kind of fraudulent action. Normally, it works by taking [...]
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Stock Market Spam Messages
Thursday, November 5th, 2009Spam messages that contain links to a website in order to promote something likes online pharmacy are very common. Since the past few years, there are spammers that send out spams in order to persuade the receivers to invest in a particular company’s stock.
Spammers distribute information that may be fake about a company’s stock in [...]
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Image Spam – The Next Generation of Spam Message
Monday, October 19th, 2009Normally, anti spam tools work by scanning text messages. In order to fool such tools, spammers shift their strategy from using plain text to using embedded images to send their messages. It makes the spam messages become undetected by traditional spam filtering software.
The effects of this type of spammmy intrusion are worse than the older [...]
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