SPAM! IT'S ONE OF THE BIG TRESSPASSERS IN OUR DAILY INTERNET LIFE... Many of us have a bad morning of full inbox with unwanted mails resulting in a full select and delete. Why do these junk slip from the spam/bulk folder in your mail agent to your inbox?
Lets find it out.
SENDER eg."Iverson Vernie":
An implausible name that sounds human to computers if not people. This helps to offset the "spamminess" of the message. Plus it is in capital letters which also helps to bust the scoring systems often used to spot spam.
E-MAIL ADDRESS eg."eieeeyuuyuioeeiiayi@fleetlease.com:
Clearly fake. All the letters before the @ sign come from the top line of the keyboard starting at the left. The spammer generated this e-mail addresses by running their finger along that line when putting the spam run together.
However, this could provide useful forensic information when tracing spam campaigns or spam groups. Another clue is given by the fact that the company owning the domain,......
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