Business Social Media

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 and dedication from your existing customers. When you have a strong following on social media you have more potential to build your business and achieve …

Malware: Definition

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. Ware is usually used to refer a kind or class of merchandise or of a manufactured item like, silverware; glassware, software. The derivation of this …

Why shouldn’t I open up my spam emails?

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 knew a person who had AIDS. Would you rub an open sore to a bloody sore on their body? Of course not. I know it’s …

Some Spam is Successful – Specifically: Weight-Loss

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 percentage receiving spam-mail pitches purchased the products. 18.5% of those who described themselves as suffering from weight issues bought products 5% of those without those …

How much does spam cost us?

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 us all $130 billion; in the U.S. alone, $42 billion. That’s a 30% increase over our 2007 estimates, which themselves were a 100% increase over …

99% of Email Sent, We Blocked as Spam

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 that load and this barrage never slowed down their systems. With 1% of email making it past our first level of filtering, another 27% were …

Some Fun & Good, Interesting Aricles

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 Tirbune – Nigerian web scam bilked Utah out of $2.5M

Most popular celebrity “bait” in spam email

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 figures in the top 10 table ranged from those well-known internet favourites Paris Hilton and Britney Spears, to less obviously appealing figures like Hillary Clinton …

Top E-Mail Scams

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 Scams 5. Weight Loss Claims 6. Foreign Lotteries 7. Cure-all products 8. Investment Schemes 9. Pay-in-Advance Credit Offers 10. Debt Relief You can forward any …

How Many People Actually Buy Something from Spam?

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) is why do spammers spam. Well, results from a new survey by Marshal show that 29% of respondents to a recent survey admitted they made …

Need Email Access on Vacation?

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 our work. Happy to find out that we aren’t alone according to the fourth annual Email Addiction Survey from AOL Mail where 19% of respondents …

Month Long S.P.A.M. Experiment

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 someone else is going to fund it all and set me up with separate identities so my real stuff doesn’t get hit, then I might …

John Levin, Author of Fighting Spam for Dummies

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 more about him at his website http://www.johnlevine.com/. 1. What do you see as the worst ramification of spam? It makes people lose confidence in e-mail, …