Questions tagged [spam]

Spam is the use of electronic messaging systems (including most broadcast media, digital delivery systems) to send unsolicited bulk messages indiscriminately.

Spam is the use of electronic messaging systems (including most broadcast media, digital delivery systems) to send unsolicited bulk messages indiscriminately. While the most widely recognized form of spam is e-mail spam, the term is applied to similar abuses in other media: instant messaging spam, Usenet newsgroup spam, Web search engine spam, spam in blogs, wiki spam, online classified ads spam, mobile phone messaging spam, Internet forum spam, junk fax transmissions, social networking spam, television advertising and file sharing network spam.

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What is the purpose of "gibberish" comments posted to my blog?

Fairly frequently, the contact form on my blog gets comments that look similar to this (each field represents a text box users can enter into the HTML form on the blog): Name: 'ceguvzori' Email: 'gwizwo@avbhdu.com' Website: 'QrSkUPWK' Comment:…
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Received a set of SMS/MMS containing 2 photos, a voice message, and a text "I need help" with Google Maps link from a known contact. Is it spam?

My girlfriend (let's call her Jane) just got a set of SMS or MMS messages coming from a friend of her (let's call her Hellen). These messages contain: Two photos of Hellen A voice message A text that says "I need help" followed by a Google Maps…
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Is using 'dot' and 'at' in email addresses in public text still useful?

When entering your email address publicly, a practice is to replace . with text dot and @ with text at. I assume that the reasoning is that this way automatic email-collector robots won't match your address so easily. I still see updated websites…
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Why is blog spam always written so badly?

Some spam messages fresh from my Wordpress filter: Asking questions are in fact pleasant thing if you are not understanding something totally, except this article gives good understanding yet. and Thanks for any other informative blog. Where…
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Unsubscribe safely

I have heard that is better to never click to any link in an email. Is it a bad idea to click to a unsubscribe link? What is the best way to unsubscribe to undesired mails?
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What is the purpose of these weird non-spam emails?

A mail made it through the spam filter and i wonder what the purpose is. It is not spam. Tracking? But how? Who? and why? In the source code there are this weird passages like ... =EA=85=9F =EA=8F=92 who benefits how? no links nothing else in this…
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What is the point of gibberish spam

I fairly often happen across forums spammed with messages such as: Arugula (Eruca sativa) is an quarterly green, pretended or roquette. It's been Traditional times, overclever 20 flat has be useful to "foodie" movement.Before impediment 1990s,…
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How did I get this email without a "To" field?

I got an empty email in my language (Hebrew) with only a title that can be translated to I am still waiting for your feedback (original: עדיין מחכה למשוב שלך) Since my gmail handle multiple accounts (by forward and by user\pass) I tried to figure…
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Why would a spammer try to get a (normal) image of mine?

Yesterday I found a spam mail in my inbox. I inspected it in order to find out why DSpam and SpamAssasin failed. You can find the raw German mail here, here's a translation: Good Morning. We got to know each other on the website of acquaintances. I…
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What malicious things can happen when clicking on links in email?

I've received a spam from one of my friends (well I'm sure he didn't send it). so there's this link, and i'd thought what exactly would be the implications of clicking the link (i've not clicked it yet)?
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How do I safely inspect a suspicious email attachment?

I received a pretty blatantly spammy email to my Gmail account. Attached to the email is a supposed HTML file. My first hunch was that it was probably one of the following: A nasty executable file masquerading as a simple HTML file, or An actual…
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How did this paypal spoof email pass SPF, DKIM and DMARC

This mail that got through has me stumped. It appeared to me as being from PayPal in my Inbox. I happened to look at the original and it says SPF, DKIM and DMARC all passed. If I'm reading this right, 74.112.67.243…
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Is this "Domain Registration Service" email a scam?

I received an email to the email address listed on our website (it's a generic info@ourcompany.com to help "weed out" spam, whereas each employee has something like andreas@ourcompany.com to which I manually forward any "real" email that comes in…
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How are spammers using LinkedIn "http://linkedin.com/slink?code=..." URLs?

I was sent this kind of link from presumably compromised Skype account, via a skype message (do not click unless you have a sandbox or something to protect you): https://www.linkedin.com/slink?code=e4ig_yU#56287=myskypeusername Where the…
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Getting spam calls from numbers similar to my own

My phone number is 456-123-XXXX (American phone number + area code). Over the past few months I get fairly regular spam calls from other numbers also beginning with 456-123-XXXX, where the last four digits are always different. The calls are…
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