E-mail Service

Phishing E-mail is a mail with purpose of acquiring some private information such as Log-in Name/ID and Password from the recipients to access to their online account or Electronic account.  Especially for online banking or online payment account.

In the E-mail, the criminals will pretend to be generally related to the company’s as their staff or officer. They often use intimidation tactics to tell you that their online system had been invaded, ask you to sign in to your account in order to check whether your assets/property being stolen. They will attach a link to lead the recipients to a fraudulent website which the look and feel of the site are almost exactly same as the real/original site.

In order to prevent fall into the trap, recipients must carefully check the e-mail reliability. Normally, banks/online payment provider do not require users to provide passwords or identity information via e-mail. If you receive such a e-mail, you can contact your bank/service provider about the credibility.

Besides, there are many Anti Phishing Software in the market which can  identify the phishing content contained in e-mail and websites. 

To prevent e-mail spam, both end users and administrators of e-mail systems use various anti-spam techniques. Some of these techniques have been embedded in products, services and software to ease the burden on users and administrators. No one technique is a complete solution to the spam problem, and each has trade-offs between incorrectly rejecting legitimate e-mail vs. not rejecting all spam, and the associated costs in time and effort.

Anti-spam techniques can be broken into four broad categories: those that require actions by individuals, those that can be automated by e-mail administrators, those that can be automated by e-mail senders and those employed by researchers and law enforcement officials.

Many countries have legislation laws to restrict the use of E-mail spam such as United State, Canada, Australia, China, Japan, European Union’s countries, Malaysia, Singapore and many others.

Partly Source from Wikipedia.

E-mail spam, known as unsolicited bulk Email (UBE), junk mail, or unsolicited commercial email (UCE), is the practice of sending unwanted e-mail messages, frequently with commercial content, in large quantities to an indiscriminate set of recipients.

Spam in e-mail started to become a problem when the Internet was opened up to the general public in the mid-1990s. It grew exponentially over the following years, and today comprises some 80 to 85% of all the email in the world, by a “conservative estimate”.

Pressure to make e-mail spam illegal has been successful in some jurisdictions, but less so in others. Spammers take advantage of this fact, and frequently outsource parts of their operations to countries where spamming will not get them into legal trouble.

Increasingly, e-mail spam today is sent via “zombie networks”, networks of virus- or worm-infected personal computers in homes and offices around the globe; many modern worms install a backdoor which allows the spammer access to the computer and use it for malicious purposes. This complicates attempts to control the spread of spam, as in many cases the spam doesn’t even originate from the spammer.

An industry of e-mail address harvesting is dedicated to collecting email addresses and selling compiled databases. Some of these address harvesting approaches rely on users not reading the fine print of agreements, resulting in them agreeing to send messages indiscriminately to their contacts. This is a common approach in social networking spam.

Source from Wikipedia.