Re: NIGERIAN EMAIL SCAM

[jseymour () linxnet com (Jim Seymour)]

Servie Platon <servie_tech () yahoo com> wrote:
> Hello firewall wizards and security experts,
>
> May I ask for some kind of spam 101 tutorial from
> anyone. Please kindly enlighten me on how these
> spammers or people who send scam emails
> indescriminately all over the internet which is kind
> of annoying. 
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FAQ: How do spammers get people's email addresses?
http://www.private.org.il/harvest.html

The Email Abuse FAQ, Version 2.02
http://members.aol.com/emailfaq/emailfaq.html

Address Munging FAQ: Spam-Blocking Your Email Address
http://members.aol.com/emailfaq/mungfaq.html

SpamFAQ.net: The FAQs about Unsolicited Bulk Email
http://www.spamfaq.net/

That last contains a page with links to many other informative sites,
such as CAUCE and the SpamCon Foundation.

As far as vulnerabilities go: If you're using an operating system and
mail client configuration that is overly susceptible to email-borne
virus', is widely targeted by spammers and virus/worm/trojan-writers
that work for them (or not), you have no border or local protections
against them, and you or any users on your network are careless: Yes,
you are vulnerable and will almost certainly become a "victim," and
subsequently part of the problem, at some point.

Jim
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