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Anyone curious how much spam different countries over the worlds get. Oz get half the amount of us. The Western Sahara doesn't seem to get any, I wonder why
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That is shocking, whichever way you look at it, it's far too much 
Chris.
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It is pretty shocking really. Don't forget that most of it we don't get to see as the end user as it's blocked by administrators monitoring the mailservers. There are repercussions every time we mark an email as Spam/junk. Depending on who's hosting the mail, but some companies sign a clause with them and get penalised/complaints by their mail provider (ISP) if they get too many mails marked as spam. http://help.campaignmonitor.com/topic.aspx?t=35
I wonder how much of of that spam percentage around the world is what I class as comercial spam. Advertisers/companies who like to harass, not the usual Viagra etc. Something else to consider is the amount of gloabal warming caused through spam. And how much faster would the Internet be if we eradicated all this spam off the highways.
I wonder how much of of that spam percentage around the world is what I class as comercial spam. Advertisers/companies who like to harass, not the usual Viagra etc. Something else to consider is the amount of gloabal warming caused through spam. And how much faster would the Internet be if we eradicated all this spam off the highways.
(:-})Instead of sending messages asking for money or marketing Viagra, the electricity used sending the e-mails could have powered 2.4 million homes for a year or driven a car around the planet 1.6 times, according to the report.
http://steverenner.com/spam-pollution/
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why do people do it ??
are they trying to hack into your bank account and nick money ?
are they trying to hack into your bank account and nick money ?
3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the worlds population.
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There's various reasons for it. There's what I call commercial spam but this is not true spam, just harassment. Only commercial businesses trying to promote products. the likes of bike part shops etc. Some of them will get your email when you purchase something which is cheeky because it should be an opt in with a check box. it's not for us to opt out. In fact in the UK businesses have to now by law make it an opt in rather than opt out and include a link to be taken off their mailing list within their emails. Note some of them make this difficult.
It's a bit like UK sites now have to declare a (cookie disclosure) under the EU directive. Some of these companies are sneaky like motorcycle city or whatever they are called these days. You have to give them your details when you purchase something to get your receipt. The ones that make it difficult to opt out or I haven't knowingly opted in for I will mark as abuse spam that gets sent to blackhole.mx and they get investigated and possibly penalised. This is not your normal everyday spam filter, this get's looked into by the network mailserver spam police I suppose they could be called. This can be serious and have serious consequences for bushinesses. They may get blacklisted and end up having to try and get themselves taken off the list. http://www.spamhaus.org/ A bit like how credit services work.
Now the true spammers trying to flog viagra etc, I'm not sure why they do it. It's obviously to sell a product and some people, believe it or not, must fall for it and buy from them otherwise what's the point. Sometimes there are alternative more nefarious intentions behind what they are doing, viruses, malware, scams etc. Some may even be looking for a weakness/back door into your machine and hijack it (without you knowing) for even more nefarious intentions like the use of your machine to remotely connect to a website. Get hold of a few thousand machines and get them all to connect to a site at the same time and the traffic overload is going to cause that site problems and possibly bring it down/crash it. You may remember Paddy bookmakers being held to ransom a few years back when they site was hit just before a big race. Then there's email harvesting which is like an offspring of spamming. Collecting emails to sell on on to either comercial businesses and/or other spammers. This is like a virus in itself the way it spreads. And that's just the few reasons I know about.
Going off topic slightly but don't forget machines can be taken over remotely these days by terrorist organizations too. Why use their own machines to communicate across networks. They even use the likes of eBay. yes eBAy believe or not. Ebay is used like the old fashioned spy film hole in the wall. A hidden message behind a brick/a dropbox. The use of Steganography is involved. See the following link. Has anyone worked out my message yet Encryption is good but that is visible so one knows where to look. When encryption is hidden one don't know where to start looking 
What they will do is list an item. Everyone in the network organization will know the time and day it's being listed and where to look, grab the pic with the hidden message, file, movie or whatever inside it. The pic can then very quickly be replaced with a straight pic with no hidden content and no one will be none of the wiser. The only give away in these pics is filesize but you need to know where to look and then still break the encryption. Some of these bikes we see as being scammers could very well be this kind of thing going on. 
The dark web.
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It's a bit like UK sites now have to declare a (cookie disclosure) under the EU directive. Some of these companies are sneaky like motorcycle city or whatever they are called these days. You have to give them your details when you purchase something to get your receipt. The ones that make it difficult to opt out or I haven't knowingly opted in for I will mark as abuse spam that gets sent to blackhole.mx and they get investigated and possibly penalised. This is not your normal everyday spam filter, this get's looked into by the network mailserver spam police I suppose they could be called. This can be serious and have serious consequences for bushinesses. They may get blacklisted and end up having to try and get themselves taken off the list. http://www.spamhaus.org/ A bit like how credit services work.
Now the true spammers trying to flog viagra etc, I'm not sure why they do it. It's obviously to sell a product and some people, believe it or not, must fall for it and buy from them otherwise what's the point. Sometimes there are alternative more nefarious intentions behind what they are doing, viruses, malware, scams etc. Some may even be looking for a weakness/back door into your machine and hijack it (without you knowing) for even more nefarious intentions like the use of your machine to remotely connect to a website. Get hold of a few thousand machines and get them all to connect to a site at the same time and the traffic overload is going to cause that site problems and possibly bring it down/crash it. You may remember Paddy bookmakers being held to ransom a few years back when they site was hit just before a big race. Then there's email harvesting which is like an offspring of spamming. Collecting emails to sell on on to either comercial businesses and/or other spammers. This is like a virus in itself the way it spreads. And that's just the few reasons I know about.
Going off topic slightly but don't forget machines can be taken over remotely these days by terrorist organizations too. Why use their own machines to communicate across networks. They even use the likes of eBay. yes eBAy believe or not. Ebay is used like the old fashioned spy film hole in the wall. A hidden message behind a brick/a dropbox. The use of Steganography is involved. See the following link. Has anyone worked out my message yet
Encryption is good but that is visible so one knows where to look. When encryption is hidden one don't know where to start looking What they will do is list an item. Everyone in the network organization will know the time and day it's being listed and where to look, grab the pic with the hidden message, file, movie or whatever inside it. The pic can then very quickly be replaced with a straight pic with no hidden content and no one will be none of the wiser. The only give away in these pics is filesize but you need to know where to look and then still break the encryption. Some of these bikes we see as being scammers could very well be this kind of thing going on. The dark web.
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Foil hats everybody...
BTW Anyone wanna buy some Viagra ?
BTW Anyone wanna buy some Viagra ?
Making up since 2007, sometimes it's true...Honest...
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Keep them Mac your gonna need them.TW Anyone wanna buy some Viagra ?
The funny thing is before I even seen your post I guessed it would be a mention of foil hats. But I am still wearing it so maybe that helped.
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cybercarl wrote:Keep them Mac your gonna need them.TW Anyone wanna buy some Viagra ?
The funny thing is before I even seen your post I guessed it would be a mention of foil hats. But I am still wearing it so maybe that helped.
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Oh I don't need it yet, still plenty of wood in the tree...
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cheers carl 
I thought it would be something like that .
although we like mocking your foil hat theory I guess if the powers that be be did,nt worry about these knobbers the net would just collapse.
I work for a huge firm and they sh1t themselves about their systems getting corrupted.
I thought it would be something like that
. although we like mocking your foil hat theory I guess if the powers that be be did,nt worry about these knobbers the net would just collapse.
I work for a huge firm and they sh1t themselves about their systems getting corrupted.
3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the worlds population.
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There is still a sh1t load out there. We just don't get to see it as the majority of it is filtered out by our ISP before it even gets to our mailboxes. There is so much going on behind the scenes that the majority of folk don't even realise what's happening. Even google have tightened up their spam protection which is p...ing me off right now as I'm trying to set up a localhost test mail environment for php scripts. Run my own mail server locally but relay it through gmail's SMTP servers to my mail application.I guess if the powers that be be did,nt worry about these knobbers the net would just collapse.
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I've been trying to decipher your message Carl, now my jpgs won't open as I had them opening 
Chris.
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I don't believe you. It's only a text file zipped up.(:-})
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What I have started to do when get spam email I look to sign up for offers using the spam email address they used to send me see how they flowers like it
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All sorted nowcybercarl wrote:
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thomas111 wrote:What I have started to do when get spam email I look to sign up for offers using the spam email address they used to send me see how they flowers like it
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Doesn't look like itcybercarl wrote:
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Seems to be identical to the source image, best guess is that photobucket has stripped it out.