Guard Yourself From Facebook Fraudsters Using FakeOff
Are all your Facebook friends real people? To check whether people with fake profiles are among your Facebook friends, install FakeOff.
What Everybody Ought to Know About Dealing With Email Spam
It might be next to impossible to stop spam completely, but it's certainly possible to reduce its flow to a trickle. We outline some of the different measures you can take.
Is That Girl Really Following You On Twitter? Spambots Exposed
You open up your Facebook or Twitter and see that this pretty girl has requested to follow you or be your friend. What could possibly go wrong? A lot.
Are You Taking Friendly Fire? 3 Tips To Stop Spam From Friends
We all get spam and it can't be helped. But when it's our own friends that send some spam our way, things can get sticky. How do you deal with "friendly" spam.
The LinkedIn Connections You Don't Want — How Marketers Target You
With the advent of the Internet, and particularly social networks like LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter, Marketers now have a whole toolbox full of tricks to convert you into a buying customer. The reality for most people on social networks is that they want to spend time connecting with others, and maybe even landing a new job. LinkedIn in particular is a powerful tool that you can use to market yourself and your skills to the world. However, there's a dark side to LinkedIn too, and that's the sea of online marketers that are masquerading as regular users, and trolling the social network to find their next lead.
Stop Spam Texts Forever with These Tips
Spam texts are dumb. I could have provided a much more detailed introductory sentence, but I believe we can all agree here. Ever had this kind of moment? "Oh man! A new text message! Wonder who it could be-- NO I DO NOT WANT THIS OBVIOUSLY FAKE LOAN." We're still in the relatively early days of spam texting, so it's going to take a little while longer for us to instantly recognize them as well as we recognize a Nigerian prince scam. Here are some tips to stop them from hitting your inbox.
How Should You Deal With Twitter Spammers?
Twitter spammers are annoying entities that are an unfortunate part of the service, and it doesn’t look like that they will be going away anytime soon. Until Twitter finds a way to automatically get rid of them, it will take some participation from its user base to keep the site clean and free from fake accounts, phishing scams, and nasty viruses.
A Day In The Life Of a BlackHat SEO, Circa 2010
For most people, SEO consists of making sure your page content is compelling and the metadata accurately describes the page without keyword stuffing.
How To Deal With Telephone Spam
The greatest aspect of the telephone? The fact that you can speak to anyone at a moment’s notice, even if they’re halfway across the world. Sit back and think about that for a second because it’s amazing. But there’s also a drawback: spammers can constantly attempt to reach you with texts and calls and you may feel helpless against the endless barrage.
Ho Ho Ho, Viagra: Top Ways Spammers Can Get Your Email Address At Christmas
The problem is that not all businesses “trading” at Christmas are reputable. While you can trust your shopping center chains and online giants, there are plenty of businesses operating both in plain sight and behind the scenes that are trading not in gifts, but in data – your data. Specifically, I’m talking about email addresses, and the remarkable number of ways that scammers can farm them over the Christmas period.
How Do Spammers Find Your Email Address?
Spam is the closest thing we’ll ever find to an Internet plague. No matter who you are, spam will one day find you and you’ll have no choice but to put up with its pestilence. It’s a pandemic that people have been trying to fight for decades, yet it’s still as strong as ever. But how do spammers find you in the first place?
Save Your Sanity: Block & Filter Those Forwarded Emails
We’ve all received them – those dreaded emails. Perhaps they don’t even deserve to be held in the same regard as "emails".
What Search Engine Poisoning Is & How It Spreads Malware [MakeUseOf Explains]
If you thought malware popups and relentless email spam were the worst of it, think again. There’s a new contender on stage and it’s spreading malware like butter in desert heat. It’s called search engine poisoning and hundreds of thousands, even millions, of people have fallen victim to it all over the globe. Here’s the thing about malicious intent: the worst forms of villainy occur when the bad guys take something that is good and use it for evil.
How To Remove Spam Apps & Ensure App Privacy [Weekly Facebook Tips]
Apps on Facebook can be great, but they can also be a right pain in the neck. On one hand, there's useful apps like Spotify or Last.fm which make it easy to share your music taste with your friends. Mostly these are welcomed and vaguely interesting for the friends to view. On the other hand, there's annoying games and spammy viral apps that post things on your timeline. There are several ways to clean up the apps you're using.
Google Apps: Use Nicknames & Catch-All To Avoid Spam
Do you use Google Apps for email on your domain? You're going to want to learn these two tricks, which give you access to as many incoming email addresses you could want without creating new accounts. Multiple incoming email addresses are useful for preventing spam, because you can track who is giving out your email address. Even better, if that address is spammed constantly you can set up a filter to block all mail going to it.
Stop Every Daily Deal Email With UnsubscribeDeals
Tired of daily deal emails? Unsubscribe from all of them in three simple steps. Unsubscribe Deals is a simple web service for Gmail users that allows you to unsubscibe from Groupon, Google Offers, Woot! and a number of other daily deal services.
Grey Mail: The New Email Nuisance To Hit Your Inbox
Spam has been the bane of email for a long time, but I'd be lying if I said my inbox was full of spam nowadays - it isn't. Filters and worldwide anti-spam networks cut it right down, and increasingly savvy consumers are unwilling to give out their email to just anyone. I personally haven't seen a single spam message hit my inbox for years now. Grey mail is the new productivity killer, and it's only going to get worse.
6 Precautions You Should Take Against Email Harvesters & Spammers
Spam has its roots in email harvesting. Email harvesting is the umbrella term for the methods spammers (or bulk email marketers) use to obtain email addresses in volumes. It could be as low tech as purchasing email address lists or go high-tech with the use of special email harvester bots which scan or spider through webpages, discussion boards, and chat groups.
5 Blackhat Tools Used By Internet Spammers
Email spam is annoying, but pretty easy to ignore nowadays. But have you ever wondered how and why your favourite forum died and was suddenly filled with viagra adverts? How about those nonsensical blog comments you got that just don't seem relevant? Read on to find out about the tools the Internet spammers have at their disposal.
Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About CAPTCHAs But Were Afraid To Ask [Technology Explained]
Love them or hate them - CAPTCHAs have become ubiquitous on the Internet. What on earth is a CAPTCHA anyway, and where did it come from? Responsible for eye-strain the world over, the humble CAPTCHA has been the centre of much attention as the single most effective weapon in the fight against web spam. But are they effective?