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Spam is the use of electronic messaging systems (including most broadcast media, digital delivery systems) to send unsolicited bulk messages indiscriminately.
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Odd spam in a forum
It's possible that they are trying to increase the counts of some words in search engines, although I cannot imagine why. If there are patterns in the submissions that may be the key.
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How do spammers verify the validity of a huge amount of email addresses?
They don't, it takes less work for them to simply send emails out to invalid addresses than it does to weed out the invalid ones.
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How do I safely inspect a suspicious email attachment?
A liveCD running on a system with no hard drive, set in a DMZ network with no access to anything else would be my answer. That way there's nothing the malware could write to, and no way it could attem …
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Security concerns with malicious NFC tags?
Historically whenever a new mobile communications technology comes out the technology that uses it has usually been shown to be vulnerable from the start. This has happened with Ethernet, WiFi, Blueto …
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Getting spam calls from numbers similar to my own
The telephone system has been designed so that a caller can replace their phone number with a fake, and some unscrupulous companies use this to change their number to appear to be local to the person …
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Facebook page receiving improbable amount of likes from unknown users
There are definitely some bots out there, but it's entirely possible that it is real people who are clicking like. There are people who spend an inordinate about of time liking things on facebook, and …
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Spam that comes from names in my address book, but not their email addresses
easily be found publicly with simple searches or Facebook:
The messages are being sent to an old email account: If you were being targeted by someone they would be using your current email address
The spam … hacked, more likely you're just being sent spam by some bot that has a few names of connections from social networking sites. …
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How to explain to a customer that spamfilters don't catch everything
Something like this may work:
I completely understand your frustration with spam, I myself get at least 30 spams a day, and although almost all get picked up by the spam filters the occasional one makes … While the security companies are smart so are the spammers, so no matter how good filters are some spam is going to get through. 130 Billion spam emails are sent every day using hundreds of different ways …
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