Security, Spam detection poison, Spam Sources, Spam Trends
Note the typo they had in the subject line! New phishing scam with ties to IP ranges in other countries. The links in the emails go to sites in IP ranges different from the IP ranges and in different countries sending the emails. This appears to be a larger operation...
Abuse Of AOL, Spam detection poison, The problem might be you.
If you use AOL for your email PLEASE NEVER click the spam button to “clear” your INBOX! AOL reports your SPAM to the senders service provider! Due to our own ZERO SPAM Tolerance CompanyV subscribes to a FEEDBACK LOOP with AOL. We want to know if our...
Dangerous Spam, Spam detection poison
Today’s dangerous annoyance… This was actually a fairly bad image – but frequently we see AT&T bills and UPS and Fed Ex spam that is very convincing visually! The poison in the page is copy that would not do any good if added to a spam learning...
DeSpaminator, Spam detection poison
Spam detection poison is content that makes spam detection databases get corrupt and leads to “false Positives”. If you feed certain types of email into a Bayesian database it can negatively impact the ability to detect real spam. The spammers are well...
Spam detection poison, The problem might be you.
ISPs can engage with AOL in what is known as a “feedback loop” [click for information] AOL sends our abuse team an email if an email user and AOL clicks the spam button on an email from one of our email customers. There are some problems with this system...
