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Why am I getting tons of mail subscription emails?
I was very confused as to how I was getting all these subscription confirmations and emails.
I mean this was not a one-off occurrence! This is a minute fraction of the spam confirmation emails that I was seeing come
in. A bit of searching around indicated that sending millions of spam confirmation mails is a new
technique that people use when they’ve hacked your credit card
information. The idea is that by sending you hundreds of spam confirmations, you’ll miss the emails that are alerting you of unauthorized
purchases or withdrawals. What to do if you get hundreds of spam confirmations?
The first thing that you should do is (from a secure
place) log in and check all of your bank and credit card companies.
Check eBay, PayPal, Amazon and anywhere else that might have your information stored.
I also forwarded some of the spam emails to the Mailchimp abuse center (the bulk mail
sender). They got back to me and said that they stopped my email address from getting more mail
from them, but that it “appears a spambot may be entering your address into legitimate
sign up forms around the web”. In my case, I was actually
traveling and out of town so it took me awhile to figure out where the transactions were coming from.
Someone had gotten a hold of my Barclaycard Wyndham Rewards Visa card.
Top credit card offers - 50,000 mile signup bonus or more!
I checked Mint, which is one tool I use to track my transactions, but no fraudulent transactions showed up.
I later realized that was because these fraudulent transactions had not been fully authorized and were still temporary
charges. Have you been getting thousands of spam confirmation subscription emails?
Was your bank or credit card information hacked?
It’s common for people to get hundreds of spam emails flooding their inbox on a
regular basis. Many scammers and spam companies out there are trying to get personal information about people.
They get this information through many different platforms, such as: email, text messages, social media direct messaging, and even phone
calls that are usually automated voice messages in a foreign language.
Recently, there has been a massive number of incoming calls masking their Caller
ID as a reputable company. This entices people to answer. Usually you can just hang
up, but sometimes the callers can convince you that they are legitimate and
are only contacting you for your benefit. One can argue that scammers and spam emails are
among the worst, and most prevalent ways, people get
their information stolen. These are sometimes also referred to as phishing
emails, another term used to identify fake emails trying to obtain information.
It then combines them with the alternative formula for p we
discussed above. When a spammicity or hammicity entry cannot be found for a given word, we assume it to be zero.
This might seem strange, but it is the right thing to do. For
example, if the word “replica” never occurs in ham messages, there would be no
entry in the hammicity table. By assuming a hammicity of zero, we get , which is the right answer.
If both of spammicity and hammicity values are zero, then, we’ll ignore the word as
it has never been seen by the filter. This completes our classifier.
Now, we need some code to read files and to call
the functions defined in classifier. This code
should be defined outside the classifier object and below it.
The code is fairly self-explanatory, and we won’t describe it here.
The functions of the classifier can now be accessed with the help
of the command line switches.
Most would consider those as spam, but what if a relative was
actually serious about asking money, but without knowing it, wrote in a style that was similar to those guys from unknown countries?
Perhaps the relative doesn’t use email much? Furthermore, we can also run into
the problem of ambiguity. If there exist perplexing emails such that even knowledgeable human readers can’t
come with a consensus on spam vs non-spam, how can the computer figure out something like this?
Fortunately, with email, we won’t usually have
such confusion. Spam tends to be fairly straightforward for the human eye to detect - but can the same be said for
a computer? The key is to take advantage of existing data that consists
of both spam and non-spam emails. The more recent the emails (to take into account possible changes over time) and the more diverse the emails (to take into account
the many different writing styles of people and spam engines) the better.
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