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Started by : Jayesh Jain, Software Developer, MS IT   12 17 2009 11:01:46 +0000
Industry : InternetFunctional Area : Infrastructure(Technology)
Activity:  59 views;  last activity : 07 06 2010 20:18:09 +0000

Just like any business owner, spammers have been using holidays and festive seasons to increase their revenue. October brought many festivals, and coming now in december with christmas and new year. They're using discounts, free shipping, combo packs, and free samples with purchase, among other marketing strategies, to lure their victims.

http://www.doit.wisc.edu/news/images/jan07/spam.jpg

In November 2009, out of 3 million messages processed, 84% emails were spam and out of that 86% included an embedded URL. The attack attempts to exploit the 'Verified By Visa' program. The phishing email redirects the victim to a spoofed page that harvests all the information the victim provided the card-issuing bank at the time of sign up for the credit card.

So according to you, what measures should be in place to prevent this kind of problem?

 
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1 Only necessary messages should be allowed to enter the mailbox
2 Avoid multiple email addresses in To:
3 Internet security should become stronger

Only necessary messages should be allowed to enter the mailbox

idea posted by sumitra dutta Consultant, XYZ

While creating an account, a user is asked, mails on which areas he would like to receive. The e-mail company shouldn't allow any other mail except those on these areas to reach the users. Users should also be educated about which mails to allow while creating an account.

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by Ajay Ziz, Dy. Registrar,, University of Jammu  | 12 19 2009 08:04:27 +0000

in the morning select all the mails ( unselect those from office/toostep)

press the del button ,

repeat the procedure , till one is alive or internet is alive .depends..

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Avoid multiple email addresses in To:

idea posted by Sanjay Beedi Senior Software Engineer, Bhea Knowledge Technologies (P) ltd.

Before you can say "Spam" ......... just see how they get email addresses .....

Major reason ....... when you mail or forward a mail to your friends ...... we generally put email id in to or cc section ...... and when a person / spammer gets this mail he takes all the email (both in to section and present in body) they use it for spamming ....

So before you fw: any mail ; first delete previous entries present in the body (e-ids) the put all your entries in the BCC section .........

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that's useful

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Internet security should become stronger

idea posted by Jayesh Jain Software Developer, MS IT

In my view, Internet security should become more stronger and increase its "ignore" works. It shouln't allow any spam message to reach the user. Internet police should also help in this regard.

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