Murray Whyte
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Status: Offline | Spam is unwanted or unsolicited email.
Email addresses are harvested by spam bots which are usually operated by hackers.
The easiest way for a specific email to be intercepted is via a “man-in-the-middle attack”. This scenario occurs when you send an email and a hacker pretends to be your recipient’s email server. This results in your email server sending the hacker your email! He can then pretend to be your email server and send it onto the real recipient once he has copied or even altered the email. The most frightening thing about this is that it can be done without sender or recipient being any the wiser!
Ever had one of these emails with hundreds of addresses on them that you must forward or die?
This sort of email is normally originated by a hacker. A way to help prevent them harvesting adresses is to delete all email adresses before forwarding, and ask others to do the same.
When you get spam in your inbox don’t delete it. Report it as Spam and your email server will automatically filter all emails from the sender to your Junk file. | | Report Post |
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