April 15, 2012
Hey all, I just wanted to provide an example of a spam email that looks legit but is really SPAM. Notice who it is To: “recipients” and there are misspellings and malformed sentences all over the place. These are clues to watch for anytime you get a suspicious email, such as this. PayPal is a major corporation and they don’t make these kind of mistakes when writing emails. SPAM BOTS do though. Be careful with your info and be safe browsing. As always, if you are in need of a website, WordPress help, or anything having to do with online [...]
Tags: emails, spam, suspicious email
Category: Helpful Info, The Buzz
Read MoreJuly 20, 2011
As part of our “From the Lab” series, I will be presenting some ideas and experiments that we currently have going on. In this “From the Lab”, I will explore a different way to employ a CAPTCHA test on a web form. So what is CAPTCHA? To start, CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart) is a common technique deployed on web forms to avoid spam messages or bogus information being sent through them. CAPTCHA often manifests itself as an obtuse set of characters that you have to enter in order to submit information through the [...]
Tags: captcha, clicktcha, from the lab, labs, spam, spam bots
Category: The Big Cloud, The Buzz
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