Comments on: Spam, Fraud and Generally malicious bs http://www.walking-productions.com/notslop/2004/08/25/spam-fraud-and-generally-malicious-bs/ Not - Shawn's Little Outpost Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:29:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: MailAmi http://www.walking-productions.com/notslop/2004/08/25/spam-fraud-and-generally-malicious-bs/#comment-81 MailAmi Sun, 29 Aug 2004 04:13:18 +0000 http://www.walking-productions.com/notslop/2004/08/25/spam-fraud-and-generally-malicious-bs/#comment-81 Best way is to use a service like www.MailAmi.com Sign up, plop the names of people you want mail from in the field provided, and switch the setting [in the settings menu] to "Block all but allowed" and you'll never get mail from anyone you don't want mail from. As a side note, it works at the perimeter, so spammers can't even send the mail across the net, it stops at the senders computer. Best way is to use a service like http://www.MailAmi.com

Sign up, plop the names of people you want mail from in the field provided, and switch the setting [in the settings menu] to “Block all but allowed” and you’ll never get mail from anyone you don’t want mail from.

As a side note, it works at the perimeter, so spammers can’t even send the mail across the net, it stops at the senders computer.

]]> By: Shawn Van Every http://www.walking-productions.com/notslop/2004/08/25/spam-fraud-and-generally-malicious-bs/#comment-80 Shawn Van Every Sat, 28 Aug 2004 19:29:26 +0000 http://www.walking-productions.com/notslop/2004/08/25/spam-fraud-and-generally-malicious-bs/#comment-80 PP points me to an <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/27/technology/27spam.html?th" rel="nofollow">article describing</a> some recent activity by the Justice Department and the FBI in busting some of these plots. PP points me to an article describing some recent activity by the Justice Department and the FBI in busting some of these plots.

]]> By: Shawn Van Every http://www.walking-productions.com/notslop/2004/08/25/spam-fraud-and-generally-malicious-bs/#comment-79 Shawn Van Every Sat, 28 Aug 2004 19:17:21 +0000 http://www.walking-productions.com/notslop/2004/08/25/spam-fraud-and-generally-malicious-bs/#comment-79 <a href="http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3400351" rel="nofollow">FTC Releases Guidlines on how not to get Phished</a> FTC Releases Guidlines on how not to get Phished

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