Spam! What a great thing, when you wait for a really important mail, you see Outlook downloading your mail, SPAM appears. A couple of tips:
A) NEVER reply to spam even if there is an unsubscribe button. The only thing that you'll get is some more spam as you confirm your address
B)NEVER give any of your personal info. Everything, even your height is usefull to spammers.
C)NEVER pay any money, for something you are "charged" like mp3 downloading or free text messages. They only try to scare you.
D)NEVER send your contacts e-mails like: "You will die in 3 minutes if you don't send this piece of shit mail to 100000 contacts" STOP THE PYRAMID!
My next post will be (probably) about the pyramid mails...
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You are absolutely right!
The "Unsubscribe Here" is the oldest trick in the book!
Keeping your e-mail address free from SPAM (aka invisible to web spiders) is a hard thing to do.
First of all never place it just like that (user@domain.invalid) on the Internet. SPAM bots will get to you in no time! If you have to do so, try to type in a weird human-readable form like "user [at] domain[dot ] invalid". And of course you may encode it in html format so that nobody will be able to read it except from e-mail applications like Outlook or Thunderbird. For example "user@domain.invalid".
The problem is that there are web sites that don't do anything to protect you and expose your e-mail address. Finally, there are a LOT of friends and colleagues that will CC an e-mail to a thousand or so people, therefore exposing all of them to a single point of attack.
P.S.: Pyramids suck :P
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Thanks for you work and have a good weekend
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