Two years ago, a new and sophisticated spam started to spread in the Internet. This spam is called the “Piggyback spam.” This spam takes the form of a regular spam email. Similar to other forms of spam, this contains advertisement of products, but it also contains something else more dangerous. When you open the spam [...]
Posts on ‘February 4th, 2009’
Valentine Spam Attack
As Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, there is a group that takes advantage of this upcoming celebration to spread spam. According to reports, messages containing subject lines such as”I love being in love with you” and “I belong to you” started to invade various mailboxes last January 22. The spam email lured victims through its [...]
Combat Forum Spam
There’s money to be earned in running a forum. However, keep in mind that your discussion site can give Internet users an unpleasant impression if it is filled with links to various external sites that are not related to the topics in your forum. They can even be turned off by your focum if there [...]
How to Spot Authentic Email Marketing Campaign
One of the best marketing strategies is email marketing. There are actually lots of companies that opt for this strategy because the advertisement can be distributed to a large distribution list for a low cost as compared with using standard advertising strategies. With the growing number of Internet users, email marketing can really be very [...]
Why “Reply-to-all” Is Not Cool
American diplomats experienced a little commotion last January because some diplomats hit the reply-to-all button upon sending their emails. According to the reports, a blank email was sent to the addresses of people in the department global address list and some diplomats replied to this email hitting the reply-to-all button with a large distribution list. [...]