Cybil
Spam Emails many times appear like a forever spreading epidemic that has no solution because all it requires is for spammers to get hold of email addresses in the mailing lists. Spammers don’t even need to register for anything or request for email ID’s and just like that spam emails begin flowing in. It is easier for spammers to find their way into your mailing box even when your friends cannot.
Here are some of the ways that spammers adopt to access your email addresses for those Spam Emails. Read carefully and stay aware on how spammers can spam your mail box.
1. Dictionary Attack for Spam Emails
The famous email providers that work for free such as Gmail, Yahoo or Hotmail are simply a heaven online for spammers especially when it comes to fetching lists of email addresses.
There are many users who may have the same domain name for an email such as in …@gmail.com or Gmail as to say that. If you attempt to register for a new account you will find that taking a guess on an email ID is not a difficult task as many short or easy to remember domain names are already taken for email by many with a few modifications.
If you are looking to find an email address on a larger Internet Provide, you can simply add any domain name with a random username that comes up; there are chances that the email ID would exist in real. If you wish to stay away from such kind of Spam Emails, make sure you come up with complicated email ID’s.
2. Brute Searching Force for Spam Emails
One other common tactic adopted by spammers to Spam Emails is by looking for email addresses in common sources. They set up robots that browse through various web pages and links to fetch email ID’s.
These addressing fetching robots work a lot on the same principle as the robots on search engines just that they don’t look for the content of the page. Anything with ‘@’ sign in between with a domain at the end is all what spammers want. These pages that are of interest to these spammers are usually online chat rooms, forums and other email based interfaces because people appear on these interfaces with their email addresses usually.
Hence this is the reason that you often hear the advice of keeping your email address a secret when you register for anything online or simply use email addresses that can be disposed. If you publically post your email ID on any online page you can always encrypt it so that only readers who wish to contact you can see it and spam robots go blind to them. This is why you should disguise your email address when you use it on the net or, better yet, use disposable email addresses. However a more appropriate method is to use disposable email ID’s.
3. Worms Turning Infested PCs into Spam Zombies for Spam Emails
In order to skip past the detection or filtration radar, spammers do this trick of sending emails using a network of PC’s that are distributed. Technically these PC’s aren’t even their own property but of those users who cannot be involved in spamming.
To construct such network spammers collaborate with the authors of viruses who sell them works with tiny programs that have the ability to generate and send bulk emails.
In addition to this, all these programs that can send emails in bulk will comb through the address book of users, various files and web caches which are another great opportunity for spammers to get a hold of your email ID and trust us this is not an easy one to stay past.
So to avoid this, you must do the following:
- Make sure your email program is up to date on its latest version.
- Do not just download or open any attachments you may receive in your inbox that are unexpected.
- Always operate an updated anti-virus program.
