Taking a Look at Spam-Junk Mail

Materialism is a grievous ailment that many Americans suffer from as a result of America’s grand consumer culture. While materialism is indeed associated with negative connotations, commodities have different cultural influences on certain social groups. For example, a commodity well known to the Asian-American community is Spam. In the 2011 article, “The End of Spam Shame: On Class, Colonialism, and Canned Meat”, Sylvie Kim reminisces over the shame she had for her love of Spam. She draws in connections between Spam and American imperialism to demonstrate to her fellow Asian Americans that they should not be ashamed of their love for Spam as it represents their identity. While a history professor of Wisconson-Madison,

There is another type of spoofing like email spoofing. Email spoofing is when the message appears to be from someone trusted but in an actual fact it’s not. People who distribute spam tend to use email spoofing to make you open it and respond to them. Spoofing someone in any way is illegal. It is against the law. To get round this you can delete all your spam as there is a risk there is some kind of spoofing waiting to be open. Also delete any email that is useless and do not give your email to anyone as they can send a lot of spam to your email.

Moreover, I believe that the laws are working on Canadian spammers because they are within our jurisdiction. However, the same can't be said for international spammers because other countries have different laws and regulations with regards to spamming. As evidence, I still receive spam communications after the law passed. Thus, I would consider anti-spam laws to be a work in progress.

-Canada has been trying to get rid of spam advertising for numerous years now and finally passed an Anti-spam legislation stating that: Your business must have consent to deliver an electronic message to someone, you must clearly identify your business, and must include an unsubscribe feature. This may be to disadvantage, but America has similar anti-spam laws as well.

I couldn't help but share this hilarious TedTalk given by British comedian James Veitch. Taking matters into his own hands, James proves in his stoic, yet deeply-mischievous, and hysterically-funny performance why replying to spam email may be key to beating spammers at their own game. It's a must see video; and you may even learn how to walk away with a free toaster.

Once we give our email to the companies, many times our emails are sold to other third-party companies and they “free market” the end user. That is one of the reasons we get many spam e-mails. According to On Spam Over Internet Telephony, J Quittek said, “Today, far more spam emails than regular emails are transmitted in the public Internet. Among other reasons, the spam problem became so widespread because there were no solutions readily available when the problem arose.” Pg.50) the problem does not stop at spams, there are viruses and hacking groups that infect our computers to either steel or destroy our personal information. It’s not wrong to say that the illegal activities thiat happen in the real world are also happening on the

The CAN-SPAM Act is a law that sets the rules for commercial email, establishes requirements for commercial messages, gives recipients the right to have entities stop emailing them, and sets forth the penalties for violations. However, the law does not apply just to bulk e-mail. “It covers all commercial messages, which the law defines as ‘any electronic mail message the primary purpose of which is the commercial advertisement or promotion of a commercial product or service” (Federal Trade Commission, 2009).

Phishing attacks are the most common attacks which help the attacker to gain valuable information about the victim. The attacker use some advanced techniques which help them to bypass the Internet service provider email defense systems as well as anti-phishing techniques implemented by email providers. In today’s world, most of the cyber criminals are using spear-phishing attack so that they can install malware on the victim’s machine which can help the attacker to gain long-term access to the victim’s computer and information. Spear Phishing emails can have the attachments in many file formats such as .pdf, .docx, .doc. The file type such as .com or .exe is called executable files which help the attacker to gain access to the victim’s system

Spamming: Spamming is players being a nuisance or causing drama. The punishment for this would be Warning, 5-15 minute mute, since it doesn't tell staff what to do after personally after the mute I would kick them and if they still continue temp-ban for 12-24hrs or so and discuss with other staff. If a player is for example spamming 'staff suck' that can be considered as staff disrespect and spamming. Firstly I would warn the player and if they continue 5-15 minute mute. Since it doesn't tell staff what to do after that I would most likely try to alert a

Phishing is a kind of social engineering attack in which criminals use spoofed emails to trick people into sharing sensitive information or installing malware on their computers. Victims perceive these emails as associated with a trusted brand, while in reality they are the work of con artists. Rather than directly targeting the systems people use, phishing attacks target the people using those systems. Phishing cleverly circumvents the vast majority of an organization's security measures. It doesn't matter how many firewalls, encryption software, certificates, and two-factor authentication mechanisms an organization has if the person behind the keyboard falls for a phish. On the surface, phishing attacks may seem to be a variant of spam.

The Darkness drew his victims all over the realm. I warned people to be prepared, but they didn’t listen. I squinted at the caved-in wall that was filling the room with dirt, soot, and grass. This room had all of my food supplies in it. I searched through the newly dismantled wall that was hindering from me reaching my food source. When I packed everything into this bunker, I had enough supplies to last me a decade, if I  was smart with them. I was able to retrieve a few cans of spam. I was trying to avoid spam until my ten years were coming to an end.

Intend Audience: For this presentation, my intended audience consists of people with personal and or job related email account. This topic would also be beneficial to everyone with an email account. The topic is also appropriate for those on social media and anyone concerned about being a victim of social engineering attacks and the hacking of personal account.

Phishing is a criminal activity using different variations of social engineering techniques. ‘Phishers’ attempt to fraudulently acquire sensitive information ( passwords, credit card info) by posing as a trustworthy person or business in an electronic communication. Phishing is typically carried out using email or an IM (instant message) although phone contact has known to also have been used . The damage caused by phishing ranges from loss of access to email and to substantial financial loss. This style of identity theft is becoming more popular, because of the ease with which unsuspecting people often divulge personal information to phishers (credit card numbers, social security numbers, and mothers' maiden names). Once this information is acquired, the phishers may use a person's details to create fake accounts in a victim's name and ruin a victim's credit, or even prevent victims from accessing their own accounts.

Plan on putting in time making sure that your messages get past all techniques used for fighting spam, from content filters to image blocking and java-script suppression. You can send out a million messages blindly and not ever know if they are even seen.

Spam is the name given to those irritating message, emails and other forms of unsolicited communication that people receive, sometime in annoyingly large amounts. There are a few benefits and drawbacks of spam.