Today I received a copy of an email that said I would be paid hundreds of dollars if I forwarded the message to a bunch of people. It claimed to be real, to have been on the nightly news, and to have been on a 2-page spread in USA Today. If only. My favorite website [...]

Here’s a good article about the impact of phishing on small businesses: http://www.messagingpipeline.com/159903381. It includes lots of interesting pie charts with survey results from small businesses. -Kirk

So almost a month ago I sent an email to ILSCorp in response to a domain name scam letter they sent to me. Despite their website’s promise of a 2-day turnaround on email, I just received a reply yesterday. Go to my old entry’s comment section if you want to read what they sent to [...]

I wrote about phishing a few days back. It.s all about redirecting a user to a real-looking website and asking for personal information. There is a worse form of the same trick called pharming. Pharming works by playing a nasty trick with a core Internet protocol called Domain Name Service or DNS. DNS Generally speaking, [...]

Spammers, like everyone else who sends email, have to send their email out using a computer that knows how to act as an email server. You and I use the outgoing (SMTP) mail server of our email provider or our local Internet Service Provider (ISP). But ISP.s and email providers block bulk mailings so spammers [...]

I.m reading a lot about phishing lately. Phishing is when a Bad Person sends an email pretending to be from a company that we know and trust. The email usually encourages us to go to a familiar looking but fake website that asks for personal information. Credit card numbers, addresses, phone numbers, and Social Security [...]