Anybody despairing at the amount of spam they're receiving in their inbox may do well to consider the plight of one UK IT manager who has had to deal with around 500,000 unsolicited emails in just two months.silicon.com was contacted by the IT...
Past due account - Designed to worry recipient about a theoretical unpaid debt Another favourite technique of the spammers is to get mask their original email addresses with others containing popular first names - Bob, Mary, Jenny, you know how it...
However, it is likely that there are no CDs in the post and no service behind this email - rather it is the work of an aggrieved spammer. The spammer is clearly hoping to overload Spamhaus's servers with emails from angry email users aggrieved that...
A district court judge has rescinded a temporary restraining order against anti-spam operation SpamCop, in an early blow to a case brought by self-professed "Spam King" Scott Richter. The suit also charged SpamCop with not disclosing the identity...
The creator will doubtless be hoping it tricks recipients into believing a genuine mail has been returned for a reason they'll be tempted to ascertain. Most likely to be caught out are less threat-savvy home users who may assume an important email...
Companies and individuals are increasingly deluged with spam and phishing scams, in which con artists send email purportedly from a recipient's bank, credit card company or Internet provider requesting sensitive information such as "lost" credit...