{"id":1050,"date":"2010-01-19T15:46:28","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T15:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2010-01-19T15:46:28","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T15:46:28","slug":"spam-emails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=1050","title":{"rendered":"Spam Emails"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:289,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.spamlaws.com\\\/spam-stats.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251018110056\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.spamlaws.com\\\/spam-stats.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 11:52:36&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 11:52:36&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:290,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/news.bbc.co.uk\\\/1\\\/hi\\\/technology\\\/8388737.stm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20210927082930\\\/http:\\\/\\\/news.bbc.co.uk\\\/1\\\/hi\\\/technology\\\/8388737.stm&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/news.bbc.co.uk\\\/2\\\/hi\\\/technology\\\/8388737.stm&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:291,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.bbc.co.uk\\\/webwise\\\/askbruce\\\/articles\\\/email\\\/spam_1.shtml&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.bbc.co.uk\\\/webwise\\\/askbruce\\\/articles\\\/email\\\/spam_1.shtml&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:292,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/tinyurl.com\\\/woobl&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Spam_(Monty_Python)&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\">I\u2019ve recently been bombarded with spam emails on my Scout Group\u2019s email account. Some of these have been particularly devious as they pretend to contain new settings for my email account. And one of these <em>nearly <\/em>caught me out! Now I\u2019d like to think that I\u2019m fairly savvy about these kind of things, but I had look twice at this and check with my hosting company (I set up and pay for the Group\u2019s web space) to make sure I wasn\u2019t about to make a hideous mistake. I did take a look at the site it wanted me to go to and the file it asked me to download was a virus! Nice.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">A lot of Scout Groups etc. have their own web sites and use their own domains and could get these kind of nasty emails, and someone could click on the link thinking it was genuine, run the file and get a nasty virus. <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The most annoying thing is that I\u2019ve been very careful not to put this email address on any websites so it can be lifted by spammers. What is likely to have happened is that someone who has my address has themselves got a virus which then emails out more spam etc etc.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Of course spam isn\u2019t likely to go away as it is big \u2018business\u2019 and makes up around a staggering <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spamlaws.com\/spam-stats.html\" target=\"_blank\">45% of all emails<\/a>. However, some of the evil people who send out this junk are getting <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/technology\/8388737.stm\" target=\"_blank\">caught and fined!<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">If you want to reduce the chances of getting this junk take a look <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/webwise\/askbruce\/articles\/email\/spam_1.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> for some ideas.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">As for me, I think it\u2019s time for some Lobster Thermidor a Crevette with a mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and Spam.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Altogether now \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/woobl\" target=\"_blank\">spam<\/a>, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam &amp; repeat indefinitely! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve recently been bombarded with spam emails on my Scout Group\u2019s email account. Some of these have been particularly devious as they pretend to contain new settings for my email account. And one of these nearly caught me out! Now I\u2019d like to think that I\u2019m fairly savvy about these kind of things, but I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=1050\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Spam Emails&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-stuff","category-scouts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paTxP-gW","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}