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About this forum - Hoaxes, Chain mails, Spam
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chiawaikian
Joined: 18 Jan 2006
Posts: 207
Location: Singapore
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 Posted: 06/12/06 - 04:41 Post subject: About this forum - Hoaxes, Chain mails, Spam |
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This forum is for all discussions relating to Hoaxes, Chain mails, Spam.
Hoaxes
Hoaxes usually arrive in the form of an email. Please disregard the hoax emails - they contain bogus warnings usually intent only on frightening or misleading users. The best course of action is to merely delete these hoax emails.
symantec.com/avcenter/hoax.html
Chain mails
Simply defined, a chain letter is a text that advocates its own reproduction. "Please copy this message and send it to 10 other people," urges one common specimen. "Forward this to everyone you know," begs another.
urbanlegends.about.com/od/internet/f/chain_letter.htm
Spam
Electronic junk mail or junk newsgroup postings. Some people define spam even more generally as any unsolicited e-mail. However, if a long-lost brother finds your e-mail address and sends you a message, this could hardly be called spam, even though it's unsolicited. Real spam is generally e-mail advertising for some product sent to a mailing list or newsgroup.
webopedia.com/TERM/S/spam.html |
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