some other institution or service
provider. Sometimes, the spam may ask you to send your personal, credit card or
bank account information.
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Social engineering
This ploy tricks users into opening the spam by pretending to
know the person or trying to lure the person with a "personal"
subject line. Typical subject lines include "The doc you wanted"
"Urgent and Confidential," "We need to meet," "I have money for
you," or "It snowed again."
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Unsubscribe links
Sometimes the spam mail offers you a link that promises to
unsubscribe you from their mailing list. The offer is often just
a hoax, intended to confirm to the spammer that you exist, and
that your email account is correct and live.
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Mining message boards and chat rooms
Spammers use automated robots, or "bots," to search the Internet
and grab your email address from public places, such as chat
rooms and message boards. Even publishing your email address on
your website is an invitation to spam.
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Open proxy, third-party servers
Open proxies help spammers maintain anonymity. Spammers can send
mail using such servers while hiding their true identities and
Internet locations (IP addresses).
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Web beacons
An email may contain an image that is invisible to the recipient
- this is sometimes called an "invisible GIF" or "web beacon."
Once the email is opened, the spammer is alerted that your
address is accurate.
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Inserting random strings of text and
characters
Since the common spam defense is based on text string filtering,
spammers insert text to fool the filters but still leave the
mail readable. So, the subject line may include V_I_A_G_R_A.
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Chain Letters
Almost all of us get chain letters that invite us to forward the
message on to our friends. The chain letter may offer a few
cents for every forward, or warn of bad luck if you send to less
than five people. These are hoaxes created to promote spam –
spammers recover huge number of valid email addresses to target
later with spam mails.
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Hacks, spyware, malware
The purpose of many virus’s and other malware is to collect
your address book data. This data is passed on to spam engines.
Sometimes, your PC is made into a spam engine spewing out spam –
without your being aware of it.
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