This presentation is mainly based on computer security and email security.

3.  Spam is the electronic version of junk mail.
 Spam can be used to deliver :-
Trojan horses, viruses, worms, spyware,
and targeted phishing attacks.

4. It was invented by George Hormel & Co.
in 1937. To name a food product named
SPiced hAM.

5. You do not know the sender.
Asked to send money to obtain a large cash
sum.
Asked for a password or banking account
information.
The sender repeatedly asks for personal or
secret information.

6.  Spammers regularly scan UseNet for
email addresses.
 Design the email.
 Broadcast it using fake accounts,
BotNet and proxy servers.

8.  The first person arrested for spamming
was Anthony Greco ,aged 18 on 2005 .
 He was accused of sending 1.5 million of
unsolicited ads.
 86% of email addresses post on internet
are used by spammers
 Bulgaria is the first country to legalized
spam.

9.  Fills your inbox with number of unwanted
emails.
 Degrades your internet speed to a great
extent.
 Steals your useful information.
 Alter your search results on any search
engines.
 Spam can crash mail servers and fill-up
hard drives.

10. Always use an updated trustworthy spam
filtering program.
Never share your e-mail address with
untrusted websites.
Avoid responding to suspected e-mails.

11. Append a plus ("+") sign and any combination
of words or numbers after your email address.
original
universityfan@gmail.com
After change
universityfan+lahiru@gmail.com

12. You could use universityfan+bank@gmail.com
when you sign up for online banking and
then set up a filter to automatically star, archive
or label emails addressed to universityfan+bank.

13.  More than 97% of emails sent over the
internet are spam emails
 349.6 billion in 2008 192% increase in
spam over the past year
Source:- Microsoft security intelligence report volume 6

17. The CNN news alert spam attack
 One of the largest spam attacks over the
last few months.
 Attackers sent millions of fake emails all
over the world (E-mails look like sent by
CNN).

18. Spamming is an illegal action to perform in
cyber space