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Advertising Some companies engaged in legal business, advertise their products or services using spam. They can carry out its own newsletter, but more often ordered her to those companies (or individuals) who specialize in this. The attractiveness of such advertising is its relatively low cost and (presumably) a large scope of potential customers. Such unsolicited advertising may have the opposite effect, causing rejection of the recipients, and may even become synonymous with intrusive advertising, as happened with ham SPAM. In connection with the sharp rejection of the spam recipients, and the tightening of legislation antispamovogo share of legal goods and services in the total volume of spam is decreasing. It is believed that, with proper organization of promotional mailings, they can actually increase sales, not delivered to the recipient of special concern.

The principal terms of mutual benefit to the recipient and the organizer of distribution are: combining the roles of organizer and dispatches e-mail service provider; improving the quality of the target audience of each specific distribution of advertising messages; warning customers of the provider that he would send out promotional messages; providing convenient means to block unwanted messages. It should be noted, however, that the advertising message distributed to users with their consent, by definition, are not spam. Advertising illegal products With the help of spam frequently advertised products, which can not communicate in other ways – such as pornography, counterfeit (fake) products, medicines with the restrictions on traffic in illegally obtained private information (databases), infringing software. Nigerian letter Sometimes spam is used to enticed out money from the recipient of the letter.

The most common method is called «Nigerian letter», because a large number of these letters came from Nigeria. This letter contains a message that the recipient of the letter can be in any way a large sum of money, but the sender could help him in this. Then, the sender of the letter asked him to transfer some money under the guise of, for example, documentation or open an account. Vymanivanie this amount is the object of the bully. A narrower called this type of fraud – Bench or benches 419 (number of articles in the Criminal Code of Nigeria). Phishing «Phishing» (engl. phishing from fishing – fishing) – another way of fraud through spam. It is an attempt by spammers enticed out of the recipient’s letter of credit card numbers or passwords access to online payments. This letter is usually masked by an official communication from the administration of the bank.

It states that the recipient must confirm details about yourself, or else his account will be blocked, and provides the address map (of spammers) to the form to be filled. Among the data that is required to report are present and those that need fraudsters. To ensure that the victim does not have guessed about the deception, clearing the site also simulates the design of the official site of the bank. Other types of spam Letters of happiness The proliferation of political advocacy. Mass mailing list for the withdrawal of the postal system (DoS-attack). Mass mailing on behalf of another person in order to cause a negative attitude to it.

Mass mailing of letters containing a computer virus (for primary distribution). Our letters of Family History (as a rule, the sick, or victims of the accident the child) with the information that for every forward letters to some Internet service provider allegedly paid to the family of the victim a sum of money «treatment». The purpose of this list is to collect e-mail addresses: after numerous peresylok «all friends» in the text of the letter often contains the e-mail addresses of all whom it has been forwarded previously. And among the regular recipients may be initiated and its spammer. There are also two types of mass mailings, which are usually not included in the category of spam, because they operate unconsciously. However, they pose the same (or even more serious) problem for network administrators and end users.

Malicious programs a certain type (e-mail worms) are distributed via email. Infect another computer, the worm scans the computer to search for e-mail addresses and sends itself to those addresses. Some antivirus programs and spam filters, receiving contaminated letter sent to the return address of a notification of the virus (while mailing worms often substitutes as a return address randomly selected). As a result, dozens of people, not related to the dispatch, receiving reports that their computers are infected. However, this behavior may occur only with very old programs – were released before the problem of spam on the Internet rose to his full height

Ideology It is clear that spam brings economic benefits to its customers. This means that users, despite the dislike of spam, does enjoy the services advertised through spam. Until the impact of spam exceeds the cost of overcoming protection, spam will not disappear. Thus, the surest way to fight a denial of service advertised through spam. There are proposals on the use of public condemnation, until the end of communication, against those who buy spam advertised goods and services. Other methods are aimed at inhibiting the spammers access to users. Preventive measures to protect The surest way to fight spam – do not let spammers get e-mail address. This is a difficult task, but some precautions can be taken. Do not publish your email address

on public websites. If for some reason the email account to publish, it can be coded like «u_s_e_r_ (a) _d_o_m_a_i_n_._n_e_t». Spammers use special programs to scan websites and collect email addresses, so even a masking addresses can help. It should be remembered, however, that in the simplest cases «encoded» will be able to recognize and address of the program. In addition, it is an inconvenience not only for spammers, but also for ordinary users.

Many services to provide addresses for non-registered users can send a message to the nick. The real address is substituted service of a user profile and not visible to other users. Address can be represented in the form of pictures. There are online services that make it automatically , you can also do it in a graphics editor , or simply write the email address of your hands and take pictures. On the web-pages, e-mail addresses can be protected with the help of Java Script, which is not recognized by the software to collect e-mail addresses.

There is no need to without full guarantees of non-register at the web sites. You can make a special box for these cases and do not use it for regular work. There are even services, issuing disposable addresses specifically to identify them in case of doubt. The most famous of them – mailinator.com. Never respond to spam or pass on the reference therein. Such action will confirm that the e-mail address is actively used and would increase the amount of spam.

By downloading the images included in the letter, when read, can be used to test the activity of postal address. It is therefore recommended that they request a mail client for permission to prohibit the effect of loading the image, if you are unsure of the sender. When choosing an e-mail address should, if possible, stay in a long and uncomfortable for guessing the name. Thus, there is less than 12 million names, consisting of no more than 5 Latin letters. Even if you add numbers and symbols underlined, the number of nicknames, less than 70 million.

The spammers can send mails to all such names and weed out those with whom he came to answer «recipient does not exist». Thus, it is desirable that the name was not shorter than 6 characters, and if there are no numbers – not shorter than 7 characters. It is also desirable that the name was not a word in any language, including common names, as well as recorded in Latin Russian words. In this case the address can be guessed by the crowding of words and combinations of the dictionary.

You may from time to time change its address, but this is due to the obvious difficulty: you need to communicate the new address to people who would like to receive e-mails. Companies often do not publish your address, instead of using CGI to communicate with users. All methods of hiding the address is a fundamental flaw: they create an inconvenience, not only the alleged spammers, but the real addressees. Besides, often just need to publish the address – for example, if a contact address.