Monday, October 23, 2006

New Era of Spam

Today I received what appeared to be an undeliverable message. This is not strange as I have been known to produce a typo or two. However, this particular undeliverable email was different.

Typically the message would come from the outgoing mail server, however, the server name that produced the message is "mail.rivernet.net", a server which I did not recognized. This prompted my curiosity, I read the message an apparently lisa@rivernet.net did not receive my message. The problem is that I have never heard of rivernet.net or Lisa for that matter. This developed my curiosity even further and I decided to open the attachment to see what this was all about.

This was the message:

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As you can see this is clearly a spam message.

The bottom line is that for every block that is created, one clever individual finds a way around it. This is one of the reasons why spam will never cease. Billions of dollars are spent on wasted productivity due to the volume of spam received by the white collar sector. We have been informed to death by marketers. Isn't there someone out there who can put a real stop to this kind of nonsense?
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