This book shines a bright light on the shadowy electronic mail attacks that fill the in-boxes of nearly every internet email user on a daily basis. Most email users are unaware of the tricks and scams that accompany or are built into unwanted automated email messages that today account for approximately 60% of worldwide email traffic.The goal of this book is to educate the world's email users in an entertaining way about the threats to their individual privacy and the credibility of the entire email system through a careless attitude toward email spammers and hackers. Those who are satisfied to wait for technological and legislative solutions are deluding themselves into believing that the answer will come solely from the outside. Armed with just a little bit of technical knowledge provided in this book, every email user can fight the last inch of the battle starting immediately, with the ultimate goal of choking off the spam economy and removing all financial incentive for the perpetrators.
- ISBN10 1590790634
- ISBN13 9781590790632
- Publish Date 1 January 2010
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 January 2023
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Select Books Inc
- Format Paperback
- Pages 336
- Language English