Email Spam

Internet Summaries

Here, I offer an inside peek at the SPAM Email that I have received.
Let's shine a little daylight on this huge burden of unwanted email.





A Spam Email Filter Education Page.
How to avoid common Spam Email techniques.
I offer a number of Anti-Spam Hints at the bottom of the page.

General Spam

Quick reject pile - all spam not fitting into any of the below categories, at first glance. If I looked at them all, many would fit nicely into one of the categories below.

Debt, ink, mortgage, refinance, software, etc.

Drug Spam

All the expensive drugs

Virus Spam

Once identified, these are easily spotted by file size, plus general look and feel.

Chinese Spam

I say Chinese because most of them are from China. However, in here I have included ALL Spam emails that contain all question marks (?s) in the Subject line (foreign characters).

Nonsense Subject Line

A single word related to nothing.
A single dollar amount related to nothing.

Member Enlargement Spam

Grow a larger appendage.

Regarding

Re: is the beginning of the Subject Line - They are trying to trick you into believing that this is a Reply to your previous email to them. Bogus!

Classmates.com Spam

Go away, already. They will pound you into oblivion.

No Subject Line Spam

By definition, an email with no subject line is Spam. The problem is, that some of your friends are not diligent, or informed. You will sometimes be throwing away real emails from them unopened. Too bad. Educate them.

Social Engineering Spam

SUBJECT LINE: Congratulations, Great seeing you again, Hey, Hiya, How Are You?, Howdy, How's It Going, It's Been Awhile, It's Me, Miss Me?, Your sister called me, Where have you been?, etc.

Africa Email Scams

These are all heavy-text spam emails from individuals who claim to be related to recently-demised, very rich African dictators, officials, bankers, etc. They just need a teeny bit of help from you to get multi-million dollar sums into the US. They say they will give you 10-30% if you help them.

All they need is your account number .... he-he-he ...

WHF Spam

I never asked for this, and I'm not going to spend a SECOND of my time to make it go away. Beware who you send a SINGLE email to - you will be slammed with their unrequested, unwanted newsletter FOREVER.

Costco.com Spam

Forget about the opt-in, opt-out bull. If you don't ever want to receive Costco "Special Offers", you DON'T HAVE an email address. Get it? This applies to ANY business that you patronize. Nope! No email. Sorry.

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1. Never click on the "Remove Me" link at the bottom of any email.
This tells the email spammer that he has a valid email address. BINGO!
Your name instantly goes on a bunch of NEW spammer email lists!!!

2. There is currently a trend among email spammers to construct a phony "Sender" name,
by combining an English name with an ethnic name. Examples above might include Doyle Federico, Lizzie Igpoke, Mabel Cka, Regenia Hiroko, etc.
Oftentimes, one can spot a phony email with just a glance at the "Sender Name".
Such as listed above - Lew Ddihdfl, lexxzgjixmnzw, potion Ali, or Mock waddle, etc.

3. Other Sender names are far more obvious. Examples above include "heretofor, inimical, parking, reach-out, snail, wholesale, etc.
Do not open emails from these obvious Direct Marketing Association idiots.
The DMA has a strong lobby, which assures continuing harassment and email pollution.

4. Most email virus attacks are directed toward Microsoft applications for two reasons -
A.) 95% MS market ownership gives virus writers the most bang for the buck, and
B.) The security problems with Windows are legend, making virus attacks easy - SP2 is a cruel joke.

A recent email virus which attacks PCs, does NOT EVEN have to be opened to infect your computer -
you simply have to RECEIVE the email, and BANG, you are infected.
Current file extentions of email attachments which can contain viruses are -
.bat, .cmd, .cpl, .dll, .exe, .pif, reg, .scr, and .vbs.
NEVER, NEVER, NEVER open ANY attachment files with these extentions if you use a Windows PC.

Although there are viruses for the Apple Macintosh, they are a tiny fraction when compared to PC viruses,
and typically far less destructive.

Spam Word List to use in a spam blocker.

Disclaimer
The opinions stated above are my own, and not of my ISP, or anyone else.
I hope that you find this Block Spam Email Info Page useful.
It can help you in implementing an anti spam filter.
Thank you very much for your time.

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