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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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How is typing "name at example dot com" safer than "[email protected]"?

The problem for the bot creator is trying to parse all the text to identify what is an obfuscated email. It's obvious to a human by reading the context, but a script is not going to have contextual aw …
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What can I do to get rid of spam emails that come from different, randomized email addresses?

If you cannot filter based on sender, then you detect spam by the contents. … There are a host of tools and approaches to detect and respond to spam emails: inspect attachments and links for malicious or blocked content inspect the content of the message body for common or malicious …
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Attackers posting large HTML pages - just spam? or something more sinister?

From the sample you provided, it looks like forum spam where the poster is trying to advertise. I was unable to spot anything malicious at first glance, although the target sites might host malware. … Just looks like simple spam. …
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Changing senders, same spam messages

You do not speak of your email server/provider. Some allow you admin access to search for and delete/purge emails with certain header info or subject lines (I know I did it in MS Exchange and Google A …
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Spam identification

It requires real language interpretation to determine if the context is reasonable. That's not an easy thing to do (fingers crossed for AI). But in the meantime, there are Markov Chains. They would …
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Reaction to spam from acquaintance

Blocking the domain of the link in your spam blocker will not be effective. The email comes from a completely different domain than the link destination. …
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Is email scraping still a thing for spammers

As for other methods: it is possible to query email servers directly spam scripts don't need a valid email, they can just try every name/combination they can think of. …
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How to convince employees not to click spam links in their email accounts?

Yelling at employees rarely results in people engaging in the desired behaviour. Make no mistake, your goal here is the changing of their behaviours, not convincing them of a fact. First, you need to …
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Blocking Business Email Compromise (BEC) emails

If the sending account uses an alias that is an internal account, then it is easy to detect and block. From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Each server will have their own methods to do this. If …
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Risk in adding shared mail server to my SPF like sendinblue/sendgrid for mail reputation?

The IP that the email service uses would be blacklisted, not the domain. This affects the service more than your company, which is why they tend to have very strict controls and procedures. It does …
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Automated malicious links delivered with e-mail (Reddit, LinkedIn, Package)

utm_ is not a start since that's too common to use as a differentiator. And you have not provided nearly enough detail to determine which tool might have been used to create the emails. The simplest m …
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How can I receive a (spam) email from an unknown email address?

The "sender" block of an email is actually a few different fields. The display sender can be anything, as you state. The sending email account is a field that is shown in the header of the email that …
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Why does M365 keep accepting phishing emails that Gmail rejects?

Your work M365 administrator may have adjusted the sensitivity of the junk mail settings. You need to work with them to see how to improve the sensitivity.
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How can I get more spam for my honeypot?

Spammers will "scrape" the internet for email addresses and use programs to collect millions of addresses. Or just download them. If you want your email address to be picked up by spammers, you need t …
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Phishing emails and securing set up from compromise?

It is highly unlikely that a malicious actor is sniffing email servers around the world to figure out how to craft phishing emails. What is more likely, is: your email accounts have been compromis …
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