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By The Mortals of Questa Volta in Effects Across Industries, Email Studies, The Mortals of QuestaVolta, What Others Doing on April 7, 2016May 19, 2016Leave a comment

As a business it is important for you to have a lot of social outreach. This facilitates grabbing the attention of potential new customers as well as keeping the love […]

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Malware: Definition

By Shiloh Pettyjohn in Email Studies, Questions Answered on August 10, 2011February 29, 2016

Malware:  This is a term that is a compound word formed from Malicious and software. Shortened to MalWare. The word Mal comes from the Latin word Malus which means bad. […]

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Why shouldn’t I open up my spam emails?

By Shiloh Pettyjohn in Effects Across Industries, Email Studies, Questions Answered, Spam Messages on March 26, 2011February 29, 2016

Spam emails often contain certain types of virues, mal ware, etc., that can infect your computer, but in order to infect your computer you have to OPEN them. Imagine you […]

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Some Spam is Successful – Specifically: Weight-Loss

By Shiloh Pettyjohn in Effects Across Industries, Email Studies on January 11, 2010February 29, 2016

There is a new study out which offers some evidence that spam mass mailings can generate sales at a notable rate. Results show that in the weight-loss category, a significant […]

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How much does spam cost us?

By Shiloh Pettyjohn in Email Studies, Questions Answered, Spam Solutions, What Others Doing on July 1, 2009February 29, 2016

Every year or two, Ferris Research updates its estimates for the total cost of spam, earlier this year they did the 2009 estimates . Their estimates: "Worldwide, spam will cost […]

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99% of Email Sent, We Blocked as Spam

By Shiloh Pettyjohn in Email Studies, Spam Messages, Spam Solutions on June 3, 2009February 29, 2016

Just one of our systems blocked 13.1 million messages in one week. That equaled 99% of all traffic sent through it!  Meaning that our customers servers never had to bear […]

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Some Fun & Good, Interesting Aricles

By Shiloh Pettyjohn in Email Studies on February 16, 2009February 29, 2016

Some really fun and good articles to read: Computerworld article – Top 10 spam-friendly registrars named and shamed Computerworld article – Undercover: The Company that Did Everything Wrong Salt Lake […]

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Most popular celebrity “bait” in spam email

By Shiloh Pettyjohn in Email Studies, Subject Lines on December 22, 2008February 29, 2016

That honor goes to Angelina Jolie who is the most popular celebrity name used by spammers to tempt people into opening unsolicited email, according to new research. The other famous […]

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Top E-Mail Scams

By Shiloh Pettyjohn in Email Studies, Phishing, Spam Messages on September 15, 2008February 29, 2016

Saw a report from the Federal Trade Commissions (FTC) recently released a list of the top email scams: 1. Advance Fee Fraud 2. Phishing 3. Check Overpayment Scams 4. Work-at-Home […]

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How Many People Actually Buy Something from Spam?

By Shiloh Pettyjohn in Effects Across Industries, Email Studies, Questions Answered, Spam Messages on August 25, 2008February 29, 20162 Comments

When I tell people that I work for an email spam company, one of the first and most surprising questions I get asked (after how do I stop the spam) […]

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Need Email Access on Vacation?

By Shiloh Pettyjohn in Email Studies on August 7, 2008February 29, 2016

We went on a trip and one of the key items for us was to make sure that there was wireless access so we could check our email and do […]

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Month Long S.P.A.M. Experiment

By Shiloh Pettyjohn in Email Studies, Spam Messages on July 18, 2008February 29, 2016

McAfee did an interesting little experiment of signing up a bunch of people to answer every single email spam they got. The idea scares me to no end, but if […]

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John Levin, Author of Fighting Spam for Dummies

By Shiloh Pettyjohn in Email Studies, History, Questions Answered, Spam Messages on July 9, 2008February 29, 2016

John R. Levin, author of The Internet for Dummies and Fighting Spam for Dummies, was kind enough to answer some of my questions for my blog. You can find out […]

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