While Bill Gates did manage to lift users’ hopes by citing “two years from now, spam will be solved”, he failed to eliminate their concerns by still searching for the perfect solution even 10 years after the quote. In fact, according to a report by Kaspersky, more than 70% of the emails are still spam.
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This article dives deeper into the issue and tries justifying the easy roaming of these unsolicited guests spread across the wild. Later, it concludes by mentioning crucial precautions that one must adopt to prevent critical damages to the system.
People are still naïve
Simply put, Spam refers to a term for uninvited bulk email messages. It comprises of ads of products and services, drugs, money scams, malware, phishing and absolutely everything in between.
To the majority, devious emails are easily comprehendible and fully transparent. It’s easy to look at junk and give out a short laugh. But, the unfortunate reality is that many people are still tumbling into the trap. Maybe they’re falling for the “Nigerian prince” email, or are believing the misled stock markets cleverly displayed in the message. Nonetheless, internet users are still trusting the cheats that are thriving on their innocence and continuing to dominate the email arena.
Spam is Cheap to send
Spam is “cheap” when it comes to describing its profile, but it is even “cheaper” when talking strictly about its costs. On the one hand, delivering a letter across your physical mailbox requires certain delivery charges, while on the other, emails are practically free to send. Furthermore, mails across the internet consume minimum computer resources, and demand an even lower computer knowledge. They may also use infected computers, or botnets, to send their messages out, completely nullifying any set charges.
Given the easy nature of this identity, it costs the scammer no harm even if all million emails are ignored and completely unattended. However, if even one user fools himself and carries the procedures exhibited by some financial fraud, the scammer can be sure of a beefy night meal.
No Single Point to Cut Off Spam
One of the major reasons contributing to a free flow of these ridiculous practices is that there is no single organization monitoring emails. This is in contrast to many other online communication services, most commonly in Facebook; if anyone reports of a suspicious activity around the network, Facebook’s engineers are quick to scrutinize the issue and verify the claim. If identified, the spam is traced back to the spammer sourcing out the details and strict measures are taken against the guilty. Furthermore, Facebook goes on to providing numerous security options like limiting users, restricting the number of received messages, etc.
Unfortunately, this is not the case for email. Anyone can setup and operate their own email servers, along with exchanging messages between know, or unknown users. The server can deliver as many emails as it wants. Even if it is marked as spam in Gmail, Outlook, or Yahoo! Mail, it may creep its way into other mailing services. Therefore, there is no one point where spam can be interrupted and cut off for absolutely everyone.
Fighting Spam
So how can one even begin to counter the widespread dilemma that now pollutes the entire internet aura? Well, at the higher level, we could pass laws making spam illegal, have legitimate services shut down spammers, and deploy spam filters to prevent these horrendous posts reaching internet mailboxes. Fortunately, we’ve done all those. Unfortunately, the problem continues to exist.
However, there are still numerous precautions that can be taken at the client level to identify these cheat packages and obliterate their cheap efforts. These include:
- Verify the source before opening the mail
- Only click trusted links
- Check the spellings. Most often, spams contain misspelled and oddly-arranged phrases
- Don’t download any attachment before verifying its identity completely
- Never “claim your winnings” in a contest you never participated in
- Avoid giving similar names to Usernames and email addresses
- Use renowned email services of Hotmail, Gmail, and Yahoo! Mail. They are most likely to detect malicious and fraud messages in your inbox
We would love hearing from you. How do you cope up with spam?
