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Is your spouse dissatisfied with the size of your spam? A brand-new website has made several hundred thousand pieces of unsolicited commercial e-mail available for you to download today. Act now! After a quiet online debut in 2002, the Spam Archive is making quick strides toward becoming the largest public library of junk e-mail on […]
Phishing is a kind of scam that happens online, where criminals send emails which appear to have come from a legit company and request you to provide some sensitive information. They do this by including a web-link that supposedly directs you to the company’s website. Thereafter, you are asked to provide your personal information by […]
The history of spam starts in 1864, over a hundred years before the Internet, with a telegram sent en masse to a number of British politicians. In a prescient sign of things to come, the telegram was an advertisement for teeth whitening. The first example of an unsolicited email dates back to 1978 and the […]
What comes to mind when you think of spam? Miracle pills from Internet pharmacies, requests for money from “princes” of other countries, or perhaps the food, Spam? This article is all about spam with a lowercase “s.” While many people enjoy the food Spam, no one wants to be tricked into losing money or downloading […]