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Convincing the Boss to Cough Up for Anti-Spam Software
Ah, there’s nothing like starting the day with a steaming cup of coffee, a chocolate doughnut… and a stinking mountain of spam.
It seems like your company’s anti spam filter lets almost all your daily spam right through. They may as well send an invitation. And so instead of enjoying your breakfast while […]
How Spam Filter False Positives Harm Your Business
Unless you live in a cave –and one without a computer at that– you’re very familiar with the huge time waster that sifting through mountains of email spam can be. And while spam is a huge annoyance for employees and end users everywhere, the real costs for businesses are in time and money and […]
A Recipe for Prize-Winning Email Spam
This articles explains how spammers cook up a spam message. This includes all the ingredients and directions on how they cook the ultimate spam delicacy!
Ingredients:
A complete and total lack of ethics
A good-sized serving of greed
One bushel of unnecessary products
One large cup of business ruthlessness
A dash of familiarity with spam filters
Several packages of innocent victims
Cooking Instructions:
The […]
Backscatter (NDR) Spam - Protect Yourself
With every advancement in anti spam software, the spammers become more desperate and more inventive. They have even discovered how to take advantage of standard operations of most e-mail servers.
It’s called NDR (Non Delivery Receipt) Spam or backscatter. Have you ever received a message in your inbox saying that something you sent was undeliverable or […]
Staying Safe from Phishing
Your brave anti-spam software works hard to defend your inbox from all those messages about enlarging… um…. various things. Even more important, your spam buster also helps protect you from less-embarrassing –but more dangerous– phishing scam emails. But not entirely safe. Just in case a big bad phishing scam does get through to your […]
