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The Email Spam

Email spam, also known as junk email, is unsolicited bulk messages sent through email for the purpose of promoting scams, business schemes, pharmaceuticals, weight loss programs, and online gambling. There are various types of spam, including unsolicited advertisements, phishing scams, Nigerian 419 scams, and email spoofing. To reduce spam, users should train their email filters, never respond to spam, hide their email address, use third-party anti-spam filters, and potentially change their email address if they are receiving too much spam.

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The Email Spam

Email spam, also known as junk email, is unsolicited bulk messages sent through email for the purpose of promoting scams, business schemes, pharmaceuticals, weight loss programs, and online gambling. There are various types of spam, including unsolicited advertisements, phishing scams, Nigerian 419 scams, and email spoofing. To reduce spam, users should train their email filters, never respond to spam, hide their email address, use third-party anti-spam filters, and potentially change their email address if they are receiving too much spam.

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What is an email spam?
• also known as junk email, is unsolicited bulk messages sent
through email.
• The term spam is derived from a famous Monty Python
sketch in which there are many repetitive iterations of the
Hormel canned meat product.
• While the term spam was reportedly first used to refer to
unwanted email as early as 1978, it gained more
widespread currency in the early 1990s, as internet access
became more common outside of academic and
research circles.
Email spam comes in various
forms, the most popular being to
promote outright scams or
marginally legitimate business
schemes. Spam typically is used to
promote access to inexpensive
pharmaceutical drugs, weight loss
programs, online degrees, job
opportunities and online
gambling.
Types of Spam
1.Unsolicited Advertisements
any material advertising the commercial availability or quality of any
property, goods, or services which is transmitted to any person without that
person's prior express invitation or permission, in writing or otherwise.

Sample Images
2. Phishing Scams
• One of the hardest types of email spam to spot is phishing
scam emails.
• These buggers are designed to look like official emails from
financial institutions or big companies like eBay and PayPal, but
actually direct victims to equally official looking scam sites. This
tricks people into volunteering their usernames and passwords,
which are then used by the site owners, the scammers, to
compromise the real accounts.
Sample
3. Nigerian 419 Scams
• If you have an email account, more than likely you've received

a seemingly amazing offer out of the blue by some stranger


from a faraway land. Someone claiming to be the agent for a
long lost relative, a lottery service, an employer or even
someone looking for love will offer a large sum of money, only
asking for a small percentage in return for their time, insurance,
shipping or other seemingly legit reason. The scammer then
sends a fake check and asks for money to be wired back.
Victims never receive the large sum from the check and are
out the small fee, usually a few hundred or thousand dollars.
Sample
4. Email Spoofing

• More of a technique used to make other email spam


tactics seem more believable, many spammers will
send messages which appear to originate from a
different email address than they actually do.
• This spoofing technique makes it appear as though a
fraudulent email actually came from a trusted
source, company or organization. This builds the trust
of the victim, making them more likely to take part in
whichever scam is included in the message.
Sample
1.You Didn’t Get Express Permission to Email
2. Your IP Address Was Used for Spam
3. You Have Low Open Rates
4. Your “From” Information is Inaccurate

One of the big reasons that it is getting harder to


avoid emails going to spam is that spam filtering has
become more rigorous. Webmail providers are
simply cracking down harder on spam. However, the
filters aren’t 100% accurate, so sometimes legitimate
emails go to spam too.
How to Stop/Avoid Spam?
1. Train your filter
When you find spam in your inbox, don’t just delete it.
Select it, and tell your mail client that this particular
message is spam. How you do this depends on your
client. For instance, if you’re using Gmail’s website,
click the Report spam button in the toolbar (the icon
looks like an exclamation point inside a stop sign).
How to Stop/Avoid Spam?

2. Never respond to spam


If you recognize something as spam before you open it,
don’t open it. If you open it and then realize it’s spam,
close it. Do not click a link or a button, or download a file,
from a message that you even remotely suspect is spam.

If you opened a spam because it appeared to be coming


from a friend or co-worker, contact them immediately and
let them know that their account has been compromised.
How to Stop/Avoid Spam?
3. Hide your email address
• The more people who have your email address, the
more spam you’re going to get. So keep your
address close to your chest.

• Don’t publish it on the web unless you absolutely


have to. And if you have to, use a different address
for that purpose.

• Use disposable email addresses when you’re not


comfortable sharing your real one. Some use Blur, a
free Chrome and Firefox extension, for that purpose.
Other options include spamex and mailshell.
4. Use a third-party anti-spam filter
Most of the major security suites come with an anti-
spam filter that can augment the one on your client—
but only if that client is local. In other words, they can
work with Office’s Outlook program, but not with
Outlook.com.
5. Change your email address
This is a very drastic option, but if you’ve responded to
spam in the past or haven’t hidden your address, and are
therefore overloaded with spam, it may be your best
option.

Of course you’ll have to inform your legitimate contacts


about the change, and you’ll probably have to keep both
addresses for a few months. But once you can get rid of
the old address, your spam count should plummet.
References

 https://optinmonster.com/11-reasons-why-your-emails-

go-in-the-spam-box-and-how-to-make-sure-they-dont/

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3072435/data-center-

cloud/5-ways-to-stop-spam-from-invading-your-email.html

https://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/definition/spam

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