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STOP FEEDING THE SPAMMERS!!!!

 

An Internet community advice from Gold Coast WebWiz.

 
 
And a response to all the chain letter senders.
 
WARNING - WARNING - WARNING - WARNING - WARNING - WARNING - WARNING - WARNING - WARNING - WARNING -
 
 
Be well aware folks…………
 
Every E-mail you send containing visible addresses is scanned by the spammers, and the E-mail; addresses are harvested into databanks for future spamming and huge profits!!!!
 
Economy of SPAM.
 
Ask yourself; “Do I really want to help these criminals pestering and destroying the E-mailing community, for the sake of a stupid “although it might be Cute, Funny and Heart Touching E-mail?” (That I have to forward to 1 million people or suffer bad luck and misery for 100 years.)
 
 
Hints:
 
If you still insist on sending these useless mails around the world, at least do the following 2 simple things:
 
DELETE ALL E-MAIL ADDRESSES FROM THE COPY OF THE MAIL.
 
DO NOT USE THE “CC” OR “TO” FIELDS, - PUT THE COPY ADDRESSES ON THE “BCC’ FIELD. (“CC” = Carbon Copy, “BCC” = Blind Carbon Copy meaning invisible.)
 
Having said all that – NOW SEND THIS TO YOUR ENTIRE MAILING LIST – AND DON’T DISPLAY ANY E-MAIL ADDRESSES!!!
 
 
Regards
 
Olle
 
www.goldcoastwebwiz.com
 
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 The Economy of SPAM

The main drive behind spam is money. This is not how much it cost to get spam, but rather how much the spammer is getting for sending it.

Let's check just one of the many spamming profit models: spam via zombie PCs.

 

  • Get control of as many as possible PCs anywhere on the globe. This is done via malware distributed in one of several ways, including spam.
  • Assume that you gain control over 100,000 PCs and that you can get $1 for 10,000 messages each sent to one recipient.

  • Assume each PC can send 10 messages per minute.

     

This is: 100,000 PCs x 10 Recipients/Minute/PC x $1/10,000 per message = $100/Minute. This is $6,000/Hour or $144,000/Day or $1,008,000/Week! Over one million dollars every week!

During one week that system will produces over 10,000,000,000 messages. This is over 10 Billion messages per one week from one spammer!!! One Billion is a thousand million or milliard.

 

Conclusion: $1 million per week is a strong incentive for sending spam and getting control over innocent PCs is one way to do that.
Note: innocent users, having PCs, could be prosecuted by law enforcing authorities for spamming or even worse activities ....
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Why am I getting SPAM?

E-mail Addresses are a commodity! Spammers are trading in e-mail addresses and there is an economy behind the spam industry. Once you gets into a spam list, chances are that your e-mail address will be sold and with time you will get more and more spam.
Unfortunately, not enough is done by law enforcement authorities around the world to effectively fight spam.

 

The incentive to spam is money, the means are e-mail addresses.
How do spammers harvest e-mail addresses?

There are many ways spammers use to harvest e-mail addresses. Here is a list of some of the common methods used.

 

  1. Malware. There are numerous malware programs in the form of viruses, Trojan horses etc,. Those programs were built to collect e-mail addresses. The programs are seamlessly running on infected computers and search for e-mail addresses in mailboxes, address-books and other locations.
    Anyone that ever exchanged a message with you, either directly (send/receive) or indirectly (forward), could be a source for your e-mail address!
  2. Searching Robots. These programs are searching the Internet for e-mail addresses. All the Internet pages are scanned but there are certain locations, like forums, that are more extensively searched. Any e-mail address found is immediately available to spammers.
  3. Guessing Robots. These programs simply guess e-mail addresses. Below are three methods:
    • Dictionary based. All words from dictionaries and many permutations.
    • Alphabetical enumeration like abc, xy12 etc.
    • Similarity. E-mail addresses found at one domain will be used with other domains. Example: a known address Name-x@abc.com will be tried in all other domains like Name-x@xyz.com and Name-x@lmn.com.
  4. Innocent submission of e-mail. As e-mail is a very convenient method of communication, you are requested to give your e-mail address often. Unfortunately, e-mail lists somehow "leak" out and get into the hands of spammers.
  5. Chain e-letters. The nature of the chain letters is that they contain a lot of e-mail addresses. If such a message reaches a spammer or more likely, someone who is affected by malware (as described above), this list becomes available to a spammer.

  6. And there are more...

     

Summary
Strong incentive to send spam, week enforcement to stop spammers and high chances to get into a spammer list results with a lot of spam messages.
If we can live with most spam automatically detected and stored in the Junk folder, knowing that there are small chances for mistakes, then the default Safe-mail.net setup is OK.

However, Safe-mail.net provides a much stronger protection. Safe-mail.net has a special mechanism that will only allow messages from those that are listed in your Address Book to reach your account. This mechanism provides strong protection and no spam at all.

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Privacy

 

 

How much is known about you?

Safe-mail.net protects your Data and Privacy

A lot is published about Internet Privacy as it is very important issue. This short document is to highlight the issue of Information Harvest that could reveal significant information regarding Internet users.
If you are not an experienced Internet user, we suggest that you read additional related information. Type Internet Privacy and related words, to any popular search engine like Yahoo or Google to find relevant material. Here is one good example.
A good location to start with is Protecting your Privacy on the Internet. The section Privacy threats on the web is a good example for those who are already familiar with the Internet.
Are you searching the Internet? Checking some of the search results? Getting and sending Cookies? Communicating with friends and associates via email and Instant Messing? Looking for things to buy over the Internet? Using your Credit Card for shopping?
Did you know that somebody is collecting ALL this information about you? Did you know that not only do they collect but also catalogue all of this information associated with your identity to build a full and precise profile of you? Has it ever crossed your mind that someone might be stalking you for commercial aims?

You probably know that this is the price you pay for using those free services. Is this a good value for the money you save? Using Safe-mail.net will reduce your exposure to this data harvest, besides protecting your data and all the other services you get.
THINK AGAIN!

Safe-mail.net is not using cookies and not collecting any data about users. Safe-mail.net does not transfer, sell, trade or oterwise exchange any data it might have about its users with any other company.
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Extract from the Gold Coast WebWiz Privacy Statement.
A common sample of Privacy Statement “PS”, a PS should be recent on every website, and well known to the operators and the handlers of customer information.

When asked for some personal details, why not respond with a request to the asker to read relevant parts of their privacy statement.


Collection of your Personal Information

Gold Coast WebWiz collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Gold Coast WebWiz also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favourites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Q1 Resort and Spa Gold Coast Holiday Accommodation. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by Gold Coast WebWiz for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Gold Coast WebWiz Web site.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Gold Coast WebWiz public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Gold Coast WebWiz does not read any of your private online communications.

Gold Coast WebWiz encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from Gold Coast WebWiz so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. Gold Coast WebWiz is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Gold Coast WebWiz and Gold Coast WebWiz family of Web sites.

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Gold Coast WebWiz does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Gold Coast   be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Gold Coast WebWiz may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Q1 Resort and Spa Gold Coast Holiday Accommodation, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Gold Coast WebWiz does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

Gold Coast WebWiz keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within Q1 Resort and Spa Gold Coast Holiday Accommodation, in order to determine what Gold Coast WebWiz services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Gold Coast WebWiz to customers whose behaviour indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

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