Spam & Phishing

Posted on June 30th, 2006 in Videos, eDrinker by Oliver.Cross

SpamI didn’t have anything to post today untill I went to delete one of about thirty emails, just general rubish I have to sive through before reading anything constructive. 

Ok here is a quick lesson, let’s define Spam and Phishing.

Spam: To indiscriminately send unsolicited, unwanted, irrelevant, or inappropriate messages, especially commercial advertising in mass quantities. Noun: electronic “junk mail”.

Phishing: is the act of tricking someone into giving them confidential information or tricking them into doing something that they normally wouldn’t do or shouldn’t do. For example: sending an e-mail to a user falsely claiming to be an established legitimate enterprise in an attempt to scam the user into surrendering private information that will be used for identity theft.

Smacktard, like the people that send me this rubbish.

Right, try and stay away from chain mail. Especially if it’s from friends of friends. Don’t read crap from Africa, Nigeria and anyone else in that region. It might be prejudice, but this is were it keeps coming from. 

A friend of mine had a good idea, if you receive one of these emails take the list of email addresses. Because and I quote “just the right audience, a bunch of noobs will buy anything”. 

Here is a typical example of the sick emails I have been receiving:

[Removed: I don't think Google liked the text in the email]

Now for a little light humour. 

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