[Bp_spam] Bp_spam Digest, Vol 12, Issue 5

Tue Aug 11 11:25:28 EDT 2015

*Spam Content and objectives *
*Spam usually contains advertising. The most touted products are
pornographic services, drugs (most commonly the products of "sexual doping"
or hormones used in the fight against aging or for weight loss), financial
credit, casinos online, counterfeit watches, fake diplomas, software
"cracked" and many superstitions (including astrology).
* Some scammers also send proposals claiming to enrich quickly: work at
home, buy advice small shares (penny stock).
* The chain letters can be characterized as spam.
* Sometimes, but more rarely, they are ignorant of companies posts
netiquette who see an inexpensive way to promote them.
* Some messages indicating that an email is not reached its destination can
also be qualified as spam when the original message was not sent by
yourself but for example by a virus pretending to be you.
* Finally, the last form of spam, phishing (or "phishing," in English, a
term derived from "fishing", fishing line), is to mislead the recipient by
passing an email for a message his bank or any service protected by
password. The goal is to collect the personal data of recipients (including
passwords, a credit card number) by drawing on a fake site records all
their actions.

*Spam for fraud*
This is a classic example of spam based on the following principle: the
message requesting assistance to transfer funds from a bank account. The
recipient (compassionate supposed) is supposed to be the intermediary for
the transaction.
English speakers talk about "Nigerian scam" (literally "Nigerian scam")
because a lot of these messages emanated from Nigeria. We also find the
term "419 scams", the numbering being relative to a Nigerian legislation.
The principle of these messages is not new: they are inspired Letters of
Jerusalem dating back to the French Revolution. The same messages were
broadcast by fax in the 1980s.

*Spamming*
*Principle of spamming:*
The website (1) pays the spammer (2), which through a spamware (3),
contaminates infected machines (4), which send spam (5) to mail servers
(6), which distribute them to users (7).

This is one of the most common forms of spam, consisting of the mass
mailing of an advertising message. The authors of this fraudulent spam
often use other people's computer resources via "zombie machines" because
the automatic generation of millions of recipient addresses requires a
large bandwidth and some processing power.
Spam continues to exist and thrive thanks to the income it can generate,
what motivates some sponsors because nearly 11% of Internet users admit to
having purchased a product after receiving a spamming, of A study of Sophos
*.*
*Vectors spam*
Spam can address various electronic media: email, Usenet newsgroups, search
engines, wikis, instant messaging, blogs.

*By email*
Spam email is the most prevalent type of spam. The cost of sending an email
is negligible, it is easy to send a message to millions of recipients.
Recipients
bear the cost of receiving and storage mailbox, which may cause significant
costs for service providers, due to the volume taken by the spam that it is
considerable.
Unlike commercial promotions for which users may have agreed, spam is
unsolicited. It is often written specifically to circumvent spam filters. A
keyword such as Viagra (often touted in spam) can be written as "vi @ gr @"
or "v | agra" or "viagra" in order to deceive an automatic filtering based
on that word. Another method, called "image spam" is to accompany a
harmless text of an image that is the true commercial, no compromising word
outside of the image making it very complicated filtering of these messages.
Spammers intensify their imagination to hide their activities and evade
detection, either by falsifying sender addresses or using SMTP servers
(mail server) that allow untrusted anonymous submissions.
The addresses to send spam are usually collected by crawlers ("web
crawler"). There is a market for lists of addresses (in CD-ROM, or other
containing thousands of addresses ...) aggravating the phenomenon of spam:
Once an email address is publicly disclosed on the net and collected, its
disclosure will be through the black market and not on the sole support of
the Net.

 *For newsgroup message*
This type of spam has appeared on Usenet before that email. Usenet
discussion forums are an easy target for spam. Indeed, a message sent to a
forum affects all forum readers. Some focus groups receive almost more than
spam (this is one reason why many forums are moderated, that is to say,
monitored by a human or a robot that performs a selection among the items
offered ). Furthermore, Usenet participants generally by including their
email addresses in their articles spam senders can easily collect thousands
of addresses using a robot and send spam to the authors of these articles
via email .
The phenomenon is made even more difficult by cross-posting or multiple
publication, which respectively are to destine a message to several groups
simultaneously or to send the message to several groups on.
A particularly simple rule decides the fate obvious scams, that is to say,
articles proposing to "earn money quickly and do nothing" (usually called
"MMF", English "Make money fast" - "make money fast"): These items can be
canceled immediately by any user.
 Recently, the general term "spamposting" is sometimes used to designate
the spam appearing in blogs, forums, guest book, etc.

*By Pop-ups*
 The "Messenger Spam" is the instant messaging spam, or Spim.

*For voice systems*
The development of voice over IP (Internet telephony) fears the arrival on
our combined a new type of spam, voice spam, called SPIT (Spam over
Internet Telephony). Indeed, as Skype systems already seeing a significant
share of calls to be unsolicited origin, even if it is still personal
contact rather than commercial solicitations.

*By SMS*
The number of spammy SMS is rising sharply.  The principle is generally
prompt the message recipient to call a premium rate number Audiotel  .

*Spamdexing.*
Abusive Optimization SEO techniques to robots for search engine indexing of
modifying web pages using keywords in an abusive way to improve rankings in
the search engines.
Among the techniques used:
T* The handling of keywords of adding a long list of frequently searched
words (such as "sex") repeatedly in a page ("Anytown sex", "sex
UneAutreVille", "EncoreUneAutreVille sex", "sex
UnVillageTropPetitPourÊtreUneVille" and any other possible variation) to
appear immediately if you do a search with those words.
* The popular keyword stuffing, hidden to the visitor but not the robot,
either by printing white on white, or using the smallest font, or using the
lines in "Comment" and "meta" which are not displayed to the user, or by
changing the contents of the page after the software "robot" or "spider"
read it or changing the server to send a page to the search engine and
other ordinary users.
* The link spam is to put links to a site that is targeted in as other
external sites as possible, including public forums and pages of other
sites comments.
* A link farm ("link farm") is a site that hosts lists of links to all
other sites that control to help rank them by making them appear
popular. Google
Account include the amount and importance of links to a site to determine
the significance of the site (PageRank). Sometimes we also built multiple
sites (simulating independent sites, not just subdomains of the same site)
with almost the same content; each contains a bunch of links to all the
others to improve their rankings.
* Another variation is the "affiliate spam" where a company pays for each
visitor or each guest through links posted by others, such as "AFFILIATION
and Grow Rich, put a link to www.arnaqueur.porno .example.com for each
victim and that gives us all of their credit card numbers we give you a
penny. " The links from these affiliate programs contain the identification
code of an affiliate so
www.arnaquer.porno.exemple.com/givememoney?MisterSpammeur to who should be
paid for posting all these links everywhere.

Search sites such as Google operators are constantly seeking ways to detect
such things and make them more difficult to use effectively.
The presence of links to a website is an important criterion for ranking in
search engines. In order to artificially increase the number of links
pointing to their sites, some create blogs or comments put messages into
existing blogs, just to add links to one or more websites to promote.
The automation of this kind of pollution has led several software blog
introducing controls (Captcha) that make this automation a more complex
machine to perform.

*On wikis*
Many spam senders or advertising add links to their sites on wikis,
especially those modified by unregistered persons, like Wikipedia. In
response, some wikis set up black lists (links forbidden) or obligation
(except possibly for registered members long enough) to pass a Captcha to
add a link to another site when editing a page.

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> From: Wout de Natris <denatrisconsult at hotmail.nl>
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> Subject: [Bp_spam] Answers to questions
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> Dear all,
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> In this email I would like to remind you of the questions
> that our lead expert Julia Cornwall-McKean has posted over the past weeks
> to
> this list.
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> Unfortunately, we were not very successful in generating
> feed-back. Without community input however it is difficult if not
> impossible to
> produce a report of value in 2015. We need your input to build on last
> year's
> successful exercise  -- hence my request
> to share your answers with this group as soon as possible. Why?
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> We are on a tight schedule. In the first week of September
> the IGF Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) , holds its final meeting to
> finalise the program for the IGF meeting and will take a snapshot of our
> work
> and the progress achieved so far. The report, that will serve as the basis
> for our discussions in Brazil, will have to be finalised by 25 September.
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> During our first calls in May and June we decided on a way
> forward which led to a list of questions to the group. Many thanks to
> those who
> answered, but we need more input. I wonder therefore whether we are we
> asking
> the wrong questions and/or whether we are addressing the wrong topics?
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> Should that be the case, I need your guidance as
> to the direction we should take.  Please
> let me know your thoughts. We can pursue this discussion at our next call,
> Thursday 13 August at 14.00, UTC +2.
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> Best regards,
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> From: Wout de Natris <denatrisconsult at hotmail.nl>
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> Subject: [Bp_spam] Call for reports, articles
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> Dear all,
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> Presently I am compiling a list of books, articles, reports, etc. that are
> relevant to our topic of unsolicited communications.
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> If you have reports, etc. in your possession or are aware of them, please
> provide me with either the link through which they can be accessed online
> or the title, writer(s), etc.. Together with the draft report this list
> will be published by the IGF as a reference for all concerned.
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