Gmail Spam Filtering Explained: Actionable Advice for Email Marketers
Gmail has an automatic spam detection system that uses a combination of pattern analysis, user analytics, and virus/phishing detection to send suspicious messages directly to spam. Gmail’s spam detection and filtering, which is extremely accurate, is part of why the email service has reached its current popularity levels. Yesterday evening, Gmail announced a new feature [...] Follow SEJ on ...
BBB: scam uses BBB email address
According to the BBB, a new email phishing scam targeting business people is using a BBB.org email address.
How to Catch a Phish: In Time for National Consumer Protection Week, Visa Releases Tips to Spot Email Phishing Scams
@VisaSecurity Twitter Feed Features Consumer-Focused News and InformationSAN FRANCISCO, March 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Phishing attacks are on the rise. In 2011 phishing attempts jumped 37 percent compared ...
Phishing expeditions help clients
John LaCour and his Charleston-based company, PhishLabs, survey, investigate and root out malicious emails and websites. They collect millions of URLs every hour, thanks to their own "spampots" (think honeypot for spam) and Internet and email service providers who ship them a nearly endless supply of the electronic treachery, and then set about destroying it and identifying the people and ...
Phishing gang steals victim's life savings of .6M
Police in Britain busted up a 14-person cybercrime gang accused of fleecing a single victim out of her .6 million life savings.
