Junk Mail Caused By What You Post
Information Week — Feb 28 — "For those tempted to look at the slight decline in phishing as a ray of hope, think again. Sunner attributes the decline to criminals targeting their victims more efficiently. "We're seeing people's personal details — their names, addresses, ZIP codes, that kind of thing — used inside the messages that are purporting to come from banks," explained Sunner. "And this is increasingly a symptom of the big uptake in social networking sites such as MySpace, where people are willingly keying in all this data about themselves."
The cyberthieves can easily use this information to craft targeted attacks, Sunner said, which tend to be more successful." READ THE FULL ARTICLE
People are getting more spam and even malicious emails because they are posting their email addresses online. Web designers have known for years that you can't post your email address online or you're just asking for trouble. They use JavaScripts, CSS and forms now more than ever. Most Web designers don't just add email addresses anymore.
If you really feel the need to have people send you email from your Web sites use an email form, unless you really like junk mail sent to your inbox. Some of the email form sites let you create a form on their server and link to it from your site. No email address posted online means less spam.
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