Posts Tagged ‘email’
Thursday, August 11th, 2011
We commonly receive questions from users who tell us an expected email has not arrived, and they don’t know how to go about finding it.
Fortunately, with proper information and the right approach, it’s not really that hard to track down missing email messages.
Like snail mail, email follows a path from the sender to the recipient and problems can arise along the way. When a package or letter hasn’t arrived, it doesn’t make much sense to start yelling at the mail carrier; instead you have to start at the beginning and follow the message from point to point.
Following the chain of possession, the most common causes of missing email are as follows: more »
Tags: email, email clients
Posted in All About Email, Message Control | Comments Off
Saturday, July 16th, 2011
Mailboxes are now receiving fake Skype upgrade spam sent from hijacked Rhapsody.com mail servers.
The current campaign arrives as:
Subject: New Skype Has Been Releases ! Upgrade Now
From: ”Skype” <newsletter@news.skype.com>
In an interesting twist, the spammers involved appear to have hacked and are in control of Rhapsody.com mail servers as the samples we’ve reviewed so far are actually from:
- mta900.e.rhapsody.com ([63.211.90.40]
- mta902.e.rhapsody.com ([63.211.90.42]
- mta903.e.rhapsody.com ([63.211.90.43]
- mta904.e.rhapsody.com ([63.211.90.44]
- mta905.e.rhapsody.com ([63.211.90.45]
- etc., etc.
The spam email itself is as follows:
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Tags: botnet, email, fraud, malware, scam, spoofing, virus, zombie
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Friday, May 27th, 2011
Were seeing a fair amount of bogus Apple Store Order Notification spam emails that are sufficiently confusing to end users that they are frequently resending these to themselves after our filtering initially blocks them.
The emails present themselves as:
Subject: ID:921-818692 Apple Store Order Notification
From: “Apple Store” <Store@apple.com>
The “Order ID Number” for each spam can be random, which helps these spam emails to appear legitimate and also to help evade many spam filters.
The sending address is spoofed, and the emails themselves are quite simple:
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Tags: email, spam, spoofing
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Tuesday, May 17th, 2011
The results from OnlyMyEmail’s fourth participation in the Virus Bulletin VBSpam Challenge have been released.
For the fourth time in a row, OnlyMyEmail’s MX-Defender stopped more spam than any of the other 19 competitors, missing only 2 spam messages out of 72,008 for a record spam filtering capture rate of 99.9972%. This phenomenal capture rate, combined with zero false-positives, earned OnlyMyEmail’s MX-Defender the highest score ever awarded since the Virus Bulletin Spam Challenge began testing two years ago.
View the complete VBSpam Competition Results PDF .
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Tags: email, spam
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Friday, September 3rd, 2010
Unlike a postal address, which contains several pieces of information (name, house/apt. number, street, city, state, ZIP code) about where postal mail should be delivered, an email address only provides two pieces of data: the mailbox ID and the domain name.
These are neatly separated by the @ sign with the mailbox ID to the left and the domain name to the right. If your address is username@OnlyMyEmail.com then your mailbox ID is username and the domain name is OnlyMyEmail.com.
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Tags: email, mx record
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Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
If you don’t respect your online identity, nobody else will and before long your in-box will rot and fall off. At least that’s what our mother told us. She also told us to eat our vegetables that we’d go blind if we forwarded email to ourselves.
We usually take what Mom says with a grain of salt.
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Tags: anti-virus, email, funny, humor, malware, spam, viruses
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Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
Spam is a volume business. The spammer that sends the most spam to the most addresses wins. Therefore, spammers need to continually find lots of new email addresses.
An email address collector (a.k.a. email address extractor, harvester or scraper) is a software tool used by spammers to crawl the web looking for email addresses. more »
Tags: email
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Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Another variation of PayPal Phishing fraud is making the rounds.
While it claims to come from “report@paypal.com” these messages actually originate from already infected personal computers throughout the world.
The email begins:
From: “PayPal” <report@paypal.com>
Subject: Notification of Limited Account Access RXI034
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Tags: botnet, email, phishing, virus
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