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- Report it to the Federal Trade Commission. Send a copy of unwanted or deceptive messages to spam@uce.gov. The FTC uses the unsolicited emails stored in this database to pursue law enforcement actions against people who send deceptive spam email.
- Let the FTC know if a “remove me” request is not honored. If you want [...]

- Try not to display your email address in public. That includes newsgroup postings, chat rooms, websites or in an online service’s membership directory. You may want to opt out of member directories for your online services; spammers may use them to harvest addresses.
- Check the privacy policy when you submit your address to [...]

A new study from Harris Interactive confirms through numbers what many of us have been noticing anecdotally: social networking spam is on the rise, and most users are concerned about it.
In the study, which was commissioned by Cloudmark (an anti-spam software company), 66 percent of the 972 social networking users polled indicated that they would [...]

For many people, getting spam in our e-mail in boxes is a part of everyday life. People who send spam emails are trying vicious new tactics, which can deliver fake emails in your name.
With well over 100 million active users, it was only a matter of time before Facebook and MySpace became targets of spam. [...]

Symantec is warning users about a new type of spam that targets users of instant messaging (IM) tools like Yahoo Messenger and Microsoft’s MSN Messenger.
In a report, Symantec said it has detected a type of IM spam, which purportedly “gifts” the recipient with the opportunity to scan through their messenger buddy list and highlight who [...]

“A team of German computer scientists has developed a program that reproduces all the known forms of spit (spam over internet telephony) attack. Their plan is to make the spitting software available to computer security experts wanting to test antispit strategies. Developing these won’t be easy. There are various antispit techniques, such as white lists [...]

Google’s Gmail spam filter is legendary, and considered one of the best in the business. And it’s true, for the most part. I currently use Gmail’s spam filtering both for Gmail, and also for POP3 mail, which I “launder” through Gmail in order to take advantage of the great spam filtering.
One of the amazing features [...]

Spam has become ubiquitous - one of the facts of life, like taxes. Until strong anti-spam laws are passed and actually enforced, spam proliferation will continue because it’s proven to reach a mass audience. If it didn’t work, spammers wouldn’t waste their time.
Most people, however, see spam as the scourge of e-mail and look for [...]

Spam is unsolicited e-mail on the Internet. (E-mail that is wanted is sometimes referred to as ham.) From the sender’s point-of-view, spam is a form of bulk mail, often sent to a list obtained from a spambot or to a list obtained by companies that specialize in creating e-mail distribution lists. To the receiver, it [...]