Use knowledge to defend against Spam

 

Here’s a quick link to a handy resource that I just wish more of my friends and clients would refer to — Randy Cassingham’s Spam Primer:

The Spam Primer started in 1996 as a way to help people deal with a new problem: spam. … Spam has of course grown to be more than a nuisance: you can have your identity stolen and see all of your bank accounts drained. …

Overwhelmed? Don’t just shut your eyes and hope it will go away! It won’t. Scammers want your money, and the less you know, the easier it is to get yours.

• What is Spam?
• Who Sends Spam?
• How Do Spammers Get Your Address?
• Ways to Keep Your Address from Spammers
• You Can’t “Unsubscribe”
• (Except Under Rare Circumstances)
• Why the CAN-SPAM Law Didn’t Help
• Filtering Spam from Your Mail
• How to Get Legit Mail Delivered
• Phishing and Other E-mail Scams
• Urban Legends and Chain Mails
• Executive Summary

Green Card image courtesy of Wikipedia. In 1994 Canter and Siegel sent out the notorious first massive commercial Usenet spam: the Green Card Lottery message.

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