Spam As Fast As Possible
Techquickie
·Techquickie
·2016-05-06
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980 words · ~4 min read
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ah the grilled spam sandwich one of life's Little Pleasures at least
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According to some people anyway but while that weird canned meat product is
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beloved by millions worldwide something that's not so lovable is email spam
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which for years has clogged people's inboxes worse than real spam will clog
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your arteries so why exactly is Spam so
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prolific and what have we done to try and fight it well it probably isn't
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surprising that people found ways to take advantage AG of a means of sending
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the same message to tons of people electronically long before the
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mainstream internet was invented the first spam message was actually sent all
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the way back in 1978 over the old arpanet a US military
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Network that was a predecessor to the modern internet although the sender was
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promptly rebuked that technique sadly doesn't work today to stop spam spam
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messages continued to proliferate through new news groups users who
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sometimes people say named these sorts of messages spam after a famous Monty
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Python sketch but it really exploded in the mid to late 1990s as more and more
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people started using email anyone who's
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ever sent a message to more than one person before knows how easy quick and
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cheap it is to send the same message to a large number of people so easy in fact
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that at one point it was estimated that over 90%
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of email traffic was spam although more recent estimates have indicated that the
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number is now closer to 50% still a ton of email and that's not
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counting the spam that is popping up on places like say for example social
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networking sites dating sites video sites and the infamous comment sections
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of the aforementioned places but even though sending lots of emails is easy
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how the heck do spammers get their hands on so many people's email addresses
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often spammers will actually just test millions of random addresses that
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contain dictionary words or common names and numbers to see which ones work or
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they can use Bots to crawl the public web and look for email addresses that
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people have posted in various places say for example on a forum dubious
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advertisements can also lead people to malicious websites that convince them to
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sign up for Stuff using an email address
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which is then harvested after a spammer compiles a large list of working email
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addresses they can actually make matters worse by not only emailing all those
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people but by selling the list to other spammers and then suddenly you've got a
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deluge of emails asking you to buy pills to enlarge a certain part of your
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Anatomy say for example your nose but
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lonus I just don't get why these people
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send out spam at all doesn't everyone just delete spam and move on to the next
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real email well almost everyone does the
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response rate for spam messages is indeed extremely low so spammers use
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tools such as dedicated servers and Bot
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Nets of infected computers to send out as many pieces of spam as they possibly
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can so even if only one in a million
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people is gullible enough to believe they can buy a real Rolex for the price
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of a cheeseburger it still leads to a pretty good siiz profit for the scammers
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back to remember they're super cheap to send out so then how have we tried to
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fight back against this crap valan of
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junk mail well most of the popular email services today employ some kind of spam
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filter which scans emails for suspicious words formatting and deceptive headers
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the part of the email containing address information and checks emails against a
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known black list of spam addresses to
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keep that stuff from reaching your inbox numerous IES have also tried to
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legislate against spammers as well and although these efforts haven't been
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extraordinarily effective several more notorious spammers have served prison
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time for defrauding people but with that
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said perhaps the best thing you can do is watch who you're giving your email
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address to unless that is to say you enjoy getting business propositions from
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