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Scroll down to find the full story and conversation with Rajvardhan Oak, cyber security author and online fraud and scam researcher, and regional chief security officer Winifred Ndukwe, who kindly agreed to tell us more about spam emails and how to avoid them.
Many people have already given up fighting with spam and choose just to ignore it
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But not this person, who pettily got back at the company that randomly started spamming him with emails
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160 billion spam emails are sent every day
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Out of 347 billion daily emails sent, 160 billion are spam emails. This means that almost half of the letters that end up in our digital inboxes are unnecessary junk.
But how do spammers know where to send these unsolicited messages? “A person’s email can become susceptible to spam through various means, such as public exposure (e.g., sharing it in online forums or on social media), or data breaches at websites or services they use (breached data is often sold on the dark web),” explains Rajvardhan Oak, cyber security author and online fraud and scam researcher.
“Sometimes spammers will scrape public registries (such as those of public universities) to obtain addresses to spam,” he adds.
The content of spam emails can range from advertisements and subscriptions to fake giveaways and job offers, which can pose a real threat. “Beyond being a nuisance that clutters inboxes, spam emails are often used as vehicles for phishing attacks, where malicious actors impersonate legitimate entities to steal sensitive information such as login credentials, banking details, or personal data,” says Oak.
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