Hey! What’s up with that? I am getting all sorts of messages that look like they came from my website. Has someone hacked my site?
Short answer is a four letter word – S-P-A-M. The particular kind of SPAM is called “spoofing” where someone sends a note that looks like it came from one website when in fact it came from another.
Just got an email from my bank asking me to change my password. What should I do?
You are probably the victim of a phishing scam. Phishing is an attempt to get sensitive data by pretending to be someone else. In email, this usually takes the form of an email requesting you to change sensitive info. Please do NOT respond via email. Always use the phone to call your bank. Also, do NOT call any number provided in the email. Use your banks 800 number or some other publicly listed phone number.
Where does the term SPAM come from anyway?
He he… it is actually quite funny. SPAM is a processed meat product. Monty Python did a two minute skit where a customer wanted to order breakfast without Spam. Many of the early users of the internet loved this skit and when unsolicited email started coming out, they likened it to trying to get email without SPAM.
thanks for addressing this. Glad my inquiry inspired. now if we could inspire those spammers to get a life. Oh, Utopia…but the law of physics binds us all, for every good there is equal bad…Aloha, Nd