Boycott Yahoo! Mail at I got Spam?!

Adrian Pritchett: A little while ago I wrote a message to a friend, and after I clicked to send I got a CAPTCHA screen that said I had to verify the code in a graphic to send the message. It explained it was a feature that fights spam. I am a paying customer who has given them my name, address, credit card number, and birthdate, yet they treat me like [...] Read More


I got snow in my mail today at I got Spam?!

I received a spam e-mail today, and it was snowing. No, really, the image was an animated .gif, which looked just like that cheesy Outlook template everyone insists on using round Christmas. This surprised me because it was the first non-static spam I got, so I guess this is the new way for spammers to bypass filters. Also, I think we will be seeing more of these from now on. Scott Berinato [...] Read More


Report junk mail at I got Spam?!

The Redmond guys are taking spam more seriously than ever. Microsoft has recently issued a widget for its Outlook e-mail client which lets you report junk mail as it comes, leaving it to Microsoft to deal with the data it delivers. Softpedia writes: "The Junk E-mail Reporting Tool enables Outlook users to report junk emails directly to Microsoft. The Redmond Company and the affiliated companies will thereafter analyze the user submissions. [...] Read More


Modern E-mail Scam On The Rise at The Search Engine Weblog

A different kind of scam is now swarming in e-mail boxes. These e-mails are focusing neither on recipient's good intentions nor greed but fear. The latest scam e-mail, threatens to kill recipients if they do not give thousands of dollars to the sender, who claims to be a hired assassin. About 115 complaints have been filed with the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) since the scam emerged, [...] Read More


Spam-busting using Postfix at HackITLinux

You've learned about filtering spam using spamd and by strengthening Postfix, Linux.com's Murthy Raju adds more tools to your Postfix-based spam busting techniques. Coupled with SpamAssassin, Realtime Blackhole Lists (RBL) and Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse (DCC) provide a way to determine if the source of the spam e-mail has already been identified as spam by other systems. If you know of other ways to help combat spam e-mail, then we'd greatly appreciate [...] Read More