Fighting spam

Fighting spam

Spam is electronic messaging on a mass scale and consists of unsolicited bulk messages such as advertising and get-rich-quick schemes. Spam is very cheap or even free for the sender to send and costs are paid for by the people who fall for the scheme. There are many types of spam including; text message spam, instant message spam and social networking spam.

Weapons against spam: 

There various ways of filtering spam. Checking for certain words in the content of an email, by noticing certain keywords or certain phrases and patterns. Pattern detection technique is used to stop spam in real time before it gets to the user by monitoring large databases of messages to detect patterns. Recurrent Pattern Detection (RPD) software can be integrated into applications to detect spam and the service provider maintains a database with spam patterns and a user can update their RPD software.

 Country-based filtering is filtering emails or ignoring emails that come for a particular country that sends out a large deal of spam to your email account. This technique is based on country of origin determined by the sender's IP address rather than any trait of the sender. Discretion is a way of sharing an email address just between a certain number of people and groups and this is the most used way of limiting spam. All members involved should participate effectively on keeping the group free from spam and unwanted emails.

Users who receive spam should not reply to spam messages are this can possibly trigger a notice that the email was read by someone. Often users test to see where the spam messages takes them and this is where hackers can dig a way into finding certain information about them that they can you to attack them.

The best way to stop a user from getting spam is to report spam and setting their email account to delete or block spam messages, their email accounts can also set the intensity of the blocking of spam. There are also various anti-spam software users can download to protect them from spam.