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7 Reasons to Consider Hosted Anti-spam

Spam is a headache for both users and administrators. You know the drill – the company invests in good anti-spam and anti-phishing software hoping to put an end to the unsolicited mail headache. But what happens when there’s a network outage or an on-premise mail server failure? And what about users who want to access their work email when the mail server is offline? Not to mention the overworked IT admin who needs to make sure filters are updated, has to dig through the quarantine folder for that alleged false positive and provide user reports; the task list goes on and on.  Read more... (703 words, 2 images, estimated 2:49 mins reading time)

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Summit spam from Atlanta, Georgia

Recently I got a couple of spams sent to non-existent email addresses at a domain that I host. These spams were very similar, even though they use a variety of domain names and diferent postal address.

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  • hr-summit.net
  • cfo-summit.net
  • cmo-summit.net
  • cmosummits.org
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Report sub4sub.com spam

After uploading a video clip of mine to YouTube for public viewing, I received the following message via YouTube:

Gracehapp has sent you a message:

whats going on? great video
To:[my YouTube ID and 19 others]

howdy,

wow i like ur channel im gonna sub to ya..if you want more subs i used a website  Read more... (142 words, 0 images, estimated 34 secs reading time)

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The “Find your stalkers” Facebook scam

Today I received a strange Facebook message. Supposedly one of my friends (an old classmate of mine in Germany) had posted on my wall, but the posting was in English. Now this German friend, unless he happens to forward me an English joke, always writes to me in German. There were several of these wall posts (please DO NOT CLICK on those links!):  Read more... (526 words, 0 images, estimated 2:06 mins reading time)

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Fake news / “work at home mom” job scams

During the last couple of weeks I have listed hundreds of domains that are part of an ongoing spam campaign advertising bogus “Work at home jobs”. The websites advertised by these spams were designed to look like they belong to commercial TV channels, sometimes illegally including the CNBC logo and many of the domain names contain terms like “cnbc”, “nbc”, “abc” or “news”.  Read more... (1779 words, 1 image, estimated 7:07 mins reading time)

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Fake diploma spam (1-954-537-3038, 1-801-461-5023)

Here are some examples of diploma spam that we are seeing in our spam traps recently. I wrote about this type of spam four years ago.

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