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Maybe you wanted to promote something, contact friends or relatives you never really emailed before (at least with a normal email), send a chain letter that promised success and money or to promote a garage sale using your local hockey team email list?  Maybe you sent a message for your business using a large contactRead more

Hundreds of emails get blocked daily by your spam filters, but sometimes one slips through. You look it over and it appears to be very legitimate. You don’t remember clicking to subscribe to this newsletter, but you see the classic, You are receiving this because you subscribed to one of our partners blah, blah, blahRead more

While working on a False Positive (yes, it can happen to the best of us), I was stunned to discover how marketing people can bend email security rules. The details The message is a newsletter from a well-known Canadian bank: they’re sending an insurance reminder because the renewal date is coming up and they’re tryingRead more

If you’re about to sell something online, beware!  I planted a dummy advertisement and went hunting for scammers, which wasn’t difficult at all. Scams are all around us, and here are 2 where I deliberately offered myself as a victim. 1. The over payment You advertise something and a buyer replies via email; the firstRead more

2009, according to the Chinese calendar, was the Year of the Ox: ‘People born in the Year of the Ox are patient, speak little, and inspire confidence in others.’  1 Well that description pretty much sums up most of the spam sent in 2009: the perpetrators tended to say little in the messages, but ohRead more