Scam email is everywhere. Microsoft can't stop it, Google is just barely scratching the surface, Yahoo seems to be close on email scam detection, but nobody in the market can stop the scam emails and spammer emails from coming into our mailboxes. The spam emails keeping flooding our junk mailboxes, scam mail keeps appearing in our allowed inbox, and it never seems to end.
The worst part is, if you have an older email account, like on Hotmail or yahoo, and it's over 5 years old or more, I can almost bet you, that somewhere in some scam or hacker database is your email address, sold, bought, distributed, and saved on massive "to send" lists on servers and email collection logs, and that by now, your likely getting hundreds of email spams a day in your junk folder, especially if your on Hotmail.
How did this happen/ How did your email address get in the hands of hackers and spammers and scam artists? Simple, because you put it there. 9 out of 10 times, the number one reason you have junk in your junk folder is because you gave out your email address, in some forum, sign up, log in, or other activity.
I can take a brand new email address, post it on one single open guest book, or on craigslist for example, and you will be flooded with spam and scams in less than a week, or as in most cases a few hours. It starts as a trickle, but before you know it, that brand new email address is totally getting spam.
How do they do it? There are simple, easy to use programs out there that "crawl" the internet, visiting sites that contain open content, and collecting email addresses. A crawler, craigs-crawler, does just that. You list a few key words, like these, @hotmail.com, @yahoo.com, and @gmail.com and run the program. It takes maybe an hour to crawl craigslist, and you end up with hundreds of thousands of actual email address. This type of crawler can be used on any site, for the same purpose, and the email address collections are astounding in numbers.
So how do you tell a scam email from a friendly one? If you are unsure of the email address your getting email from, run it under a email search engine, or Google the email address itself. That normally works, but sometimes a specific address doesn't come up in results. An email checker tool is available on several sites, but not all of them are free, most charge a fee to view the results. A free email address checker is available for use. This is a free search engine that is directly geared to scam related material, and collects the results from more than 20 other anti-scam sites on the internet that may have the email address your looking for.
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I am a true blue amateur in the website world, but never the less, I have managed to open and run 40 plus websites. Like most of us who are just starting out, we have our pets and our masterpieces.
Blacklisted Emails: A blog site that I started late last year, where I was trying to gain visitors by posting scam emails I received in my email accounts. Slowly but surly, it was gone from just 10-20 visits a day to 300-1000. Mostly because of services like Articlesbase.
Computer Deal Directory: My first and second to last venture into the world of Affiliate Deep Linking. I have about 500 laptops and related items for sale, although I don't sell anything actually, but rather direct visitors to sites like Tigerdirect and others. CDD is it's branded name, and it is slowly taking off. A little harder to update content wise, but it does have some traffic.
Those are my masterpieces. Not the greatest I know, but never the less, my best of my best atm.