Advanced and dangerous spam emails becoming more common - By: Tom Jui

These days the use of the word ‘spam’ is immediately associated with the unwanted targeting of numerous emails to your inbox on a daily basis. A little over a decade ago, spam was a little known online annoyance and a word people would immediately have associated with processed meat in a tin.

As technology advances, our communication processes online are increased and become slicker, but this also means that the technology employed by professional spammers is also improving at the same time.

Most of the spam you are likely to encounter will be trying to sell something to you and is no more than a regular annoyance you have become accustomed to. However, there are ever growing instances of spam emails sent to email inboxes with attachments urging you to download and view. If files are downloaded onto your computer and you have introduced a virus into your computer it can be very detrimental to your data. Worse still is the effect of a similar spam attack to a computer linked within a large network of computers in your organisation. Situations like these cause entire businesses to lose important information and encounter large problems with their systems and online businesses.

Another common method which is adopted by advanced spammers is to gain access to your personal or business email address to disseminate an email from your IP address and spam email communication at the contacts in your email address book. This method is used to side step spam filters by using a recognised email address to target your email contacts. It is unlikely, unless you are informed by a recipient of the auto generated spam emails being sent from your email address that you will know this is happening.

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