Archive for the ‘Stop Spam’ Category

What is Financial Identity Theft?

Financial identity occurs when an imposter uses someone else’s identifying details to commit fraud that is detrimental to a victim’s finances.  The information used may include a name, Social Security number, or bank account number.  For instance, an imposter may commit financial identity theft by fraudulently opening up a new credit card account in someone [...]

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Mastercard & Visa - A Credit Card Identity Thief’s Best Friend

Bankruptcy has become more abundant throughout the United States over the past few years.  Recent reports have shown that home foreclosure is a leading cause, as well as the country’s infatuation with credit.  However, irresponsible use of a Visa or Mastercard and late payments is no longer the primary issue.  In modern times, anyone can [...]

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GFI MailEssentials with Bayesian filtering offers spam and phishing protection at server level

With fraudulent, inappropriate and offensive emails being delivered in vast quantities to businesses every day, anti-spam software is a vital component of your network’s security strategy. Spam wastes network users’ time and network resources, and can also be dangerous.
Spam is an ever-increasing problem. The number of spam mails is increasing daily - studies show that [...]

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How ISPs and Organizations Can Fight Spam

ISPs and other companies and organizations suffer badly because of spam. If all the work hours lost by people processing junk email were added up, the bill would be substantial. However, large organizations are in an excellent position to put an end to it, because they have the resources for concerted action against it. This [...]

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How the UK can stop spam without damaging free speech

Introduction
Spam is a modern pestilence. Email boxes overflow with unwanted adverts for loan sharks, pornography and spamming services. Indeed, this author has been particularly afflicted with rubbish from infomailer.com*1, but there are many other guilty parties. Hence this suggestion for legislation that will stop spam, without damaging free speech, and without needing any form of [...]

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