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18 Reasons Email Spam is Actually a Good Thing

By The Mortals of Questa Volta in Spam Messages, The Mortals of QuestaVolta on March 31, 2016March 17, 2016

1. People without friends can receive an abundance of mail every day. 2. Anyone can delete legitimate email they didn’t want to answer and claim it must have gone in […]

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Hacking and Security Markets

By The Mortals of Questa Volta in History, Spam Messages, Spam Solutions, The Mortals of QuestaVolta on June 21, 2015February 29, 2016hacking, malware, security, virus

Unfortunately, one rule of thumb is if hacker wants in, there is always a way. The hacking and security markets are very large, we do a ton of stuff to […]

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What is Backscatter?

By Shiloh Pettyjohn in Questions Answered, Spam Messages, Spam Solutions on December 30, 2011February 29, 2016

Article from Ron Edison, Founder and CTO of Internet Defense Technology What is backscatter? These are bounces generated by spam that is sent with forged return paths (as most spam […]

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I just sent all my friends an email – did I just spam them?

By Shiloh Pettyjohn in Etiquette, Family, Questions Answered, Spam Messages on July 8, 2011February 29, 2016

Did you blind cc them????? If not, I would guess ALL your friends would call it spam! There is nothing more annoying than having your email blasted to a bunch […]

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Why can’t I just answer all spam emails and tell them to stop?

By Shiloh Pettyjohn in Etiquette, Spam Messages, Spam Solutions on June 29, 2011February 29, 2016

I know it seems almost unbelievable that this could be the case, but the reality is, Spammers are some of the most unscrupulous people and if you were to email […]

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Anniversary of First Spam Message

By Shiloh Pettyjohn in Effects Across Industries, Etiquette, History, Spam Messages on May 3, 2011February 29, 2016

Today, May 3, 1978, was the first time a Spam message was sent via the Internet. On May 3, 1978, the first documented spam message was sent out to 393 […]

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Post-irritated: Spam and the Filter’s Make It so Hard to be on Email

By Shiloh Pettyjohn in Effects Across Industries, Etiquette, Spam Messages, Spam Solutions on April 21, 2011February 29, 2016

There are so many problems with service based internet issues today it’s a wonder anyone still emails! From Spam, to Malware, to Viruses, Phishing attempts and on and on it […]

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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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Watch out! UPS email has a bad virus connected to it

By Shiloh Pettyjohn in Etiquette, Spam Messages, What Others Doing on June 3, 2010February 29, 2016

There is an email being sent around that looks like a legit UPS email, it is in fact bogus. The subject line has this “UPS Tracking #” and then a […]

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“Buyer” Beware – iTunes Named Spam

By Shiloh Pettyjohn in Spam Messages on May 28, 2010February 29, 2016

You may have seen a recent iTunes email that went something like this: Subject: Thank you for buying iTunes Gift Certificate! “Hello! You have received an iTunes Gift Certificate in […]

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Scam-o-rama

By Shiloh Pettyjohn in Spam Messages on March 12, 2010February 29, 2016

Below is a real life email. I got this email from a “friend” of mine. When I called her, because I had a feeling that it was bogus, she told […]

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Are spammers trying to take advantage of the Olympics in their emails?

By Shiloh Pettyjohn in Effects Across Industries, Spam Messages, Subject Lines on February 25, 2010February 29, 2016

The better question is do Spammers try to take advantage of anything that captivates the American attention? The obvious answer: YES!!! Get the idea that these guys are like the […]

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Lotta Spam

By Shiloh Pettyjohn in Effects Across Industries, Spam Messages on February 22, 2010February 29, 2016

In the past year the number of particles of Spam has increased so substantially it has become a major crisis in the security world. One of the major issues with […]

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