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A Guide to Understanding Electronic Spam

A Guide to Understanding Electronic Spam

What is Spam?

Electronic Spam is defined as a digital, electronic instrument that is considered to be criminal in nature involving the unsolicited transmission of electronic communication with the intent to defraud its recipients, or victims, through the utilization of misrepresentation. Although electronic Spam exists in a wide range of settings, the use of Electronic Spam is considered to exist within the illegal and unlawful sales, solicitation, and marketing within the Commercial industry.
Electronic Spam undertakes a methodology in which the unauthorized entry onto personal property or private domain is implemented. In accordance with privacy laws and the constantly-evolving Cyber Laws, a charge of the disbursement of Electronic Spam may result in convictions ranging from harassment to online trespassing. 
The Origin of the Name ‘Spam’
Although no uniform reasoning for its title exists, a multitude of individuals consider the title of ‘Spam’ to have derived from the acronym of ‘Stupid, Pointless, Annoying Messages’. However, additional classifications for the origin exist.
Types of Electronic Spam

Electronic Spam, which utilizes unlawful marketing and sales efforts, involves the mass-disbursement of unsolicited information and correspondence. The implied effectiveness of Electronic Spam is to rely on sheer numbers and probability. The provision of unsolicited correspondence to as many eligible recipients as possible is considered to be the primary methodology of Electronic Spam.

Electronic Spam through E-Mail and Correspondence 
The disbursement of correspondence-based marketing activity with regard to recipients who have neither requested such information nor have inquired about it is considered to be a form of both trespassing, as well as solicitation within the tenets of Cyber Law. Furthermore, many instances of E-mail-based electronic Spam may carry with them additional charges of online harassment and the violation of privacy law as stated within the Constitution of the United States. 

Electronic Spam through Individual User Networks
Electronic Spam disbursed through individual user networks is a nature of illegal and unethical solicitation-based marketing methodology that presents advertisements on individual computer terminals. ‘Network Spam’ exists within a multitude of activities: 
‘Pop-up’ online advertisements: Defined as the unlawful placement of tracking programs that implement the inundation of individual computer users with consistent flooding of correspondence through fraudulent Internet ‘chats’ and online-based dialogue.
Electronic Spam utilizing ‘Spyware’: Occurs through the unlawful placement of intrusive computer programs unlawfully inputted into the computer terminals belonging to individual users. This type of program monitors the behavior of the individual user, oftentimes tailoring the nature of the Spam in accordance with the browsing history undertaken.
Reporting Electronic Spam

In the event that an individual has been made the victim of the receipt of Electronic Spam, they are encouraged to contact the Federal Trade Commission. The Federal Trade Commission is a Federal institution mandated by the United States Government responsible for the maintenance, protection, and regulation of commercial activity undertaken within the commercial marketplace. The Federal Trade Commission can be reached through their toll-free telephone number: (202) 326-2222. Reporting electronic Spam violations can be conducted in an anonymous fashion. 

Spamassasin Explained

Spamassasin Explained

What is Spamassasin?
Spamassasin was released by the Apache Computer Development Foundation, which serves to provide a method of identification and filtration with regard to the receipt of unwanted and unsolicited Spam e-mail. Spam e-mail undertakes the unsolicited transmission of electronic communication with intent of defrauding its recipients, which occurs through unauthorized entry onto personal computer networks classified as private.
Spamassasin effectively deters the transmission of Spam through its filtration system. Spamassasin undertakes an ‘intelligent’ algorithm aimed at curbing the delivery of Spam e-mail while allowing legitimate e-mail communication to remain unaffected.
Spamassasin employs additional preventative methodologies utilized in order to limit, if not fully prohibit, the existence of additional solicitation and intrusion upon extracting illegally-placed clandestine monitoring programs, which allow for ‘Spammers’ to collect illicit information from private users of the Internet.


Spamassasin Features
Spamassasin not only allows individual users to personalize their settings in their private e-mail accounts, but also conforms to a wide variety of e-mail servers and providers, which allows for a vast array of protection, as well as an extensive bank of e-mail Spam that is consistently analyzed. Subsequent to the investigation undertaken by the Spamassasin program, the parameters and filters employed are updated with regard to even the most recent Spam e-mail efforts.
Types of Spam E-mail Protection Provided by Spamassasin

Electronic Spam employing measures of the mass-disbursement of unsolicited information and correspondence relies on the probability that the provision of unsolicited correspondence to as many eligible recipients as possible will maximize its effectiveness. However, upon the recognition of Spam by the Spamassasin program, a multitude of Spam E-mail is effectively deterred.


Spamassasin Filtration for Private Users 

The disbursement of correspondence-based marketing activity with regard to recipients whom have neither requested such information, nor have inquired about it, may be stopped by the implementation of the Spamassasin program through its implementation of multilayered analysis and grouping of similar strains of Spam e-mail through artificial deductive reasoning.
Spamassasin Filtration for Commercial Spam
Spamassasin provides the protection from Spamming efforts undertaking solicitation ranging from unlawful communication tactics to intrusive marketing techniques, both of which result in the violation of one’s privacy. 
Spamassasin and Spyware

Spamassasin employs effective analytical algorithms addressing electronic Spam utilizing ‘Spyware’ undertaking the unlawful placement of intrusive computer programs unlawfully inputted into the computer terminals belonging to individual users. This type of program monitors the behavior of the individual user, oftentimes tailoring the nature of the Spam in accordance to the browsing history undertaken. 


How to Report an Electronic Spam Offense?

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is a Federal institution mandated by the United States Government responsible for the maintenance, protection, and regulation of commercial activity undertaken within the commercial marketplace. The Federal Trade Commission can be contacted through their toll-free telephone number: (202) 326-2222. The reporting of any or all alleged Spamming offenses can be conducted in an anonymous fashion.