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Sunday, May 17, 2009
Twitter Alert: Be Careful With Your Email
Spammers have found a new way to use Twitter. This one lets them harvest email addresses easily, and use these addresses to do their dirty business. The good news is that you can avoid this practice by simply not tweeting your email address.
I was having a talk with Twellow's lead developer Matthew Daines, and he pointed out that a simple query on Twitter Search can return large numbers of email addresses that spammers could potentially exploit.
"It would be trivial to write a script that gathers these addresses," he added. "They could have several hundred thousand over a few weeks at the rate they trickle in."
The ability to search for email addresses has always existed on search engines like Google, but Twitter and it's real-time updates brings a whole new element to the matter. They come in fast, and they're always going to be up to date. This is why it could be enticing for spammers.
"The Twitter stream really weeds out all sorts of irrelevant data and cuts right to the email addresses within 140 characters, so it's a lot less intense, and would require very little coding skill," says Daines. "The thing is this makes it just too easy to get email addresses."
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I was having a talk with Twellow's lead developer Matthew Daines, and he pointed out that a simple query on Twitter Search can return large numbers of email addresses that spammers could potentially exploit.
"It would be trivial to write a script that gathers these addresses," he added. "They could have several hundred thousand over a few weeks at the rate they trickle in."
The ability to search for email addresses has always existed on search engines like Google, but Twitter and it's real-time updates brings a whole new element to the matter. They come in fast, and they're always going to be up to date. This is why it could be enticing for spammers.
"The Twitter stream really weeds out all sorts of irrelevant data and cuts right to the email addresses within 140 characters, so it's a lot less intense, and would require very little coding skill," says Daines. "The thing is this makes it just too easy to get email addresses."
WebPro News article
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Yahoo Lottery Spammers
Yahoo files trademark suit against 'Yahoo Lottery Spammers'
By Steve Gelsi
Last update: 8:12 a.m. EDT May 27, 2008
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Yahoo Inc. (YHOO:Yahoo! Inc
YHOO on Tuesday said it filed a lawsuit against "Yahoo Lottery Spammers" for unlawfully sending e-mail messages to Internet users. The lawsuit alleges the email messages deceive people into believing they have won a lottery or price offered by Yahoo. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in New York City, under the Federal Trademark Act, the Federal CAN-SPAM Act, and related state laws. "Yahoo does not offer any such awards and has no affiliation or any connection with the spammers or their e-mail communications," the company said
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By Steve Gelsi
Last update: 8:12 a.m. EDT May 27, 2008
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Yahoo Inc. (YHOO:Yahoo! Inc
YHOO on Tuesday said it filed a lawsuit against "Yahoo Lottery Spammers" for unlawfully sending e-mail messages to Internet users. The lawsuit alleges the email messages deceive people into believing they have won a lottery or price offered by Yahoo. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in New York City, under the Federal Trademark Act, the Federal CAN-SPAM Act, and related state laws. "Yahoo does not offer any such awards and has no affiliation or any connection with the spammers or their e-mail communications," the company said
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