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Why am I getting tons of mail subscription emails? I was
very confused as to how I was getting all these subscription confirmations
and emails. I mean this was not a one-off occurrence!
This is a minute fraction of the spam confirmation emails that I
was seeing come in. A bit of searching around indicated
that sending millions of spam confirmation mails is a new technique that people use when they’ve hacked
your credit card information. The idea is that by sending you hundreds of spam
confirmations, you’ll miss the emails that are alerting you of unauthorized purchases or withdrawals.
What to do if you get hundreds of spam confirmations?
The first thing that you should do is (from
a secure place) log in and check all of your bank
and credit card companies. Check eBay, PayPal, Amazon and anywhere else
that might have your information stored. I also forwarded some of the spam
emails to the Mailchimp abuse center (the bulk mail sender).
They got back to me and said that they stopped my email address from getting more mail from them, but that it “appears a spambot may be entering your address into legitimate sign up forms around the web”.
In my case, I was actually traveling and out of town so it took
me awhile to figure out where the transactions were coming from.
Someone had gotten a hold of my Barclaycard Wyndham Rewards
Visa card. Top credit card offers - 50,000 mile
signup bonus or more! I checked Mint, which is one tool
I use to track my transactions, but no fraudulent transactions
showed up. I later realized that was because these fraudulent transactions had not been fully authorized and were still temporary charges.
Have you been getting thousands of spam confirmation subscription emails?
Was your bank or credit card information hacked?
It’s common for people to get hundreds of spam emails flooding their
inbox on a regular basis. Many scammers and spam companies out there are
trying to get personal information about people. They get this information through
many different platforms, such as: email, text messages,
social media direct messaging, and even phone calls that are usually automated voice messages in a foreign language.
Recently, there has been a massive number of incoming calls masking
their Caller ID as a reputable company. This
entices people to answer. Usually you can just hang up, but sometimes the callers
can convince you that they are legitimate and are only contacting you for your benefit.
One can argue that scammers and spam emails are among the worst, and most prevalent ways,
people get their information stolen. These are sometimes also referred to as phishing emails, another
term used to identify fake emails trying to obtain information.
It then combines them with the alternative formula for p we discussed above.
When a spammicity or hammicity entry cannot be found for
a given word, we assume it to be zero. This might seem
strange, but it is the right thing to do. For example, if
the word “replica” never occurs in ham messages, there would
be no entry in the hammicity table. By assuming a hammicity
of zero, we get , which is the right answer.
If both of spammicity and hammicity values are zero, then, we’ll ignore the word as it has
never been seen by the filter. This completes our classifier.
Now, we need some code to read files and to call the
functions defined in classifier. This code should be defined outside the
classifier object and below it. The code is fairly self-explanatory, and we won’t describe it here.
The functions of the classifier can now be accessed
with the help of the command line switches.
Most would consider those as spam, but what if a relative was actually serious about asking money, but without knowing it, wrote in a style that was similar to those guys from unknown countries?
Perhaps the relative doesn’t use email much? Furthermore, we can also run into the problem of ambiguity.
If there exist perplexing emails such that even knowledgeable human readers can’t come with a consensus on spam vs non-spam, how can the computer
figure out something like this? Fortunately, with email, we won’t usually have such confusion. Spam tends to be fairly
straightforward for the human eye to detect - but can the same be said for a computer?
The key is to take advantage of existing data that consists of both spam and non-spam
emails. The more recent the emails (to take into account possible changes over time) and the more diverse the emails (to take into account the
many different writing styles of people and spam engines) the
better.
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