The key to winning Spam

Spammers have changed their tactics a lot in recent years and the amount of spam circulating on the Internet is growing at an alarming rate. The great diversity of spam messages and various techniques used by spammers make it difficult to identify spam with precision, whether it is a human being or a computer program to make the identification. Identify spam will not have a direct impact on the amount of spam distributed every day, but for a long period of time can render ineffective the spam a marketing method. Spammers continue to distribute unsolicited e-mail because it works and they need the active players to make it work. If anyone read their e-mail will have no reason to waste their time for beneficiaries who do not respond, except for the crazies who like to send junk e-mail for no reason at all.

Spammers link to remote images or JavaScript from their e-mail to monitor their performance. These linked objects are loaded from a server each time a recipient opens one of their e-mail. They monitor the logs of these servers to see how many times the images or scripts have been loaded, you want to give them a good indication of how many times their e-mails have been opened. If you continue to see the activities of these linked objects, continue sending spam. An e-mail clients like Thunderbird can be configured to block remote images in email. The images embedded in e-mail or send pictures as attachments, will continue to be displayed, because the embedded images and attached can not send tracking information to the sender. Blocking remote images will not cause any discomfort while reading legitimate e-mail, all remote images of a legitimate e-mail can easily be unlocked with the click of a button. Disable JavaScript in your email client is not a bad idea even a few legitimate e-mail using JavaScript, so do not miss a thing off. In fact, it is safer reading e-mail without running JavaScript. Blocking images and disabling JavaScript that makes it impossible for spammers to track the performance of their e-mail.

The main reason why spammers embed images in their emails instead of using the text, is to bypass spam filters. Certain phrases in the text of an e-mail may trigger a spam filter, but spam filters can not read the contents of an image, so it's perfectly safe to place the text within a ' image and embed the image in an e-mail. This worked for a while 'up spam filters began to mark these messages as spam. Spammers have started to add random text from various books at the end of their e-mail to trick spam filters. Spam filters can not read the text of an e-mail in context with the rest of the e-mail, so e-mail containing a picture and a nonsense text at the end, it may seem perfectly legitimate to most Anti-spam filters. Spammers also add CAN-SPAM banners and fake unsubscribe links in their e-mail to make it appear as legitimate and complies with anti-spam legislation. Anyone can add a banner to a CAN-SPAM e-mail and the sole purpose of unsubscribe link is to confirm that the mailbox is active. Can you believe that will be removed from their list, clicking on the unsubscribe link, but that will only cause your e-mail to be moved to their list of priorities and you will be exposed to even more spam.

Links of spam e-mails typically contain the affiliate codes or tracking. The affiliate code will only be profitable for the spammer if you buy something from the website listed in the link. You should never buy anything from a website in an e-mail spam, not even a known and trusted site. You always run the risk of becoming victim of a phishing attack. Links containing the monitoring data can be linked to your e-mail and can have the same effect as a fake unsubscribe link. Sophisticated spammers can create a unique link to the attached e-mail address of each email message to send, so you can easily confirm that your e-mail account is active when you click on one of these links.

So what's the bottom line of all this? To combat spam effectively, you need to ignore it. But you can just ignore if you are able to identify it. Identify spam often means that you must open the e-mail. Opening the e-mail can cause tracking information to be sent to a server (via remote images or JavaScript), informing the spammer that your mailbox is active or information that can be used to monitor the effectiveness of e- email. To prevent this data from being sent monitoring is necessary to disable JavaScript and block remote images with your email client. Links provided in these e-mails should never be trusted and you should never click on one of them.

Ignoring the spam does not mean that you should report it. Ignore the spam simply means that you should not respond to spam as spammers like to do. Make spam less effective for spammers and reporting to the appropriate authorities is the key to beat spam .......