Recognizing spam is fundamental to the security of your data.
Spam is automated e-mail that is sent to your personal or business e-mail address when you have not solicited any interest in it.
In this system, there is, on the one hand, the sender of the e-mail (the “spammer”) and, on the other, the action of “spamming”, which refers to the act of sending the fraudulent and/or unwanted e-mail.
Find out how to easily recognize spam and avoid it.
3 easy ways to recognize spam
1-Identify the e-mail sender
This is the first reflex to develop when you receive an e-mail from an unknown recipient. Of course, not all of these are dangerous e-mails, but you can consider them risky if the sender’s address :
Contains special characters;
Is written in a foreign language;
Ends with “.de”, “.hu” or “.it”.
To recognize spam, also consider checking the correlation between a clickable link and the web address it leads to. Many spam or malicious messages are inconsistent in this respect.
If, for example, you receive an e-mail containing a URL to the https://staging.aikitech.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/pexels-olya-kobruseva-7247408-684×1024-1-1.jpg website, take the time to compare the link to which you owe. Sometimes there are subtle differences that tell you that the site isn’t the right one and could be fraudulent.
2- Analyze the subject of the message
If you’re not sure whether the e-mail you’ve received is genuine “spam” and you’re hesitant to act on it, analyze the subject line carefully.
To recognize spam, check :
The subject: is it a game? A contest? Advertising an attractive promotion? A reference for a payment to be validated?
Type: spam usually contains a lot of misplaced capital letters, inappropriate symbols or quotation marks that shouldn’t be there.
The subject of the e-mail: if the subject starts with “RE” or “IT” and you’ve never had an exchange before, it’s certainly a malicious e-mail.
Check the body of the e-mail
There are a few sure signs that you can recognize spam:
An e-mail containing suspicious URL links or redirecting to unknown websites;
Bad grammar, spelling mistakes or a mixture of two different languages;
A message promising a sum of money to be returned due to a contest or money transfer from a company.
So before you click on a link or send any personal information, do a content analysis.
Spam to watch out for
To recognize spam, you also need to be aware of the main types of spam you may encounter.
Here, Aiki Informatique presents the different types of spam you could get in your e-mails.
Any questions on the subject? Please contact us.
