Spammers: naughty, but clever
Latest posts | Feed | By Mark Brownlow on February 27, 2007
Hate them or despise them, you have to admit they're a clever bunch. Those oh-so-naughty spam folk.
Rick's Spam Digest has a fascinating article outlining a wide range of Spammer Tricks. You don't need to understand them to get the message that spammers are innovative and armed with top notch technological know how.
Combine intelligence with an absence of morals and you have an unpleasant "James Bond villain" situation. The takeaway is that spam probably isn't going away. Not quickly anyway, though I have high hopes.
As legitimate email marketers, we all carry a responsibility to ensure our emails are as relevant and permission-based as we can get them. And to support all and every sensible anti-spam endeavor that comes along.
(Doff of the hat to Marc of Mobilize Mail for the article tip.)
More anti-spam resources Tags: email marketing, spam, anti-spam, email advertising, opt-in email
Rick's Spam Digest has a fascinating article outlining a wide range of Spammer Tricks. You don't need to understand them to get the message that spammers are innovative and armed with top notch technological know how.
Combine intelligence with an absence of morals and you have an unpleasant "James Bond villain" situation. The takeaway is that spam probably isn't going away. Not quickly anyway, though I have high hopes.
As legitimate email marketers, we all carry a responsibility to ensure our emails are as relevant and permission-based as we can get them. And to support all and every sensible anti-spam endeavor that comes along.
(Doff of the hat to Marc of Mobilize Mail for the article tip.)
More anti-spam resources Tags: email marketing, spam, anti-spam, email advertising, opt-in email
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1 Comments:
I also really like Rick's post about the top 10 spam tricks.
I run an anti-spam network called Rozmic Spam and Virus Firewall...we stop millions of email a day and the VAST majority of the email we stop come from zombie PC's. It's a huge problem.
By 
Ross Cooney, on
27 February, 2007
