What is spam, where does it come from, and why do I
receive it?
Spam email is a form of commercial advertising which is
economically viable because email is a very cost-
effective medium for the sender. If just a fraction of
the recipients of a spam message purchase the advertised
product, the spammers are making money and the spam
problem is perpetuated.
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Spammers harvest recipient addresses from publicly
accessible sources, use programs to collect addresses on
the web, and simply use dictionaries to make automated
guesses at common usernames at a given domain.
Spamming is politically debated in several countries,
and has been legislated some places with varying
results. Spammers often conceal or forge the origin of
their messages to circumvent laws, service provider
regulations, and anti-spammer lists used by anti-spam
software.
At the present more than 95% of email messages sent
worldwide is believed to be spam, making spam fighting
tools increasingly important to all users of email.
See SpamCop’s spam statistics to see the spam trend over
time: http://www.spamcop.net/spamgraph.shtml?spamyear
See Wikipedia for more about spam:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam.
Spam and viruses
Spam is increasingly sent from computers infected by
computer viruses. Virus-makers and spammers are
combining their efforts to compromise innocent computer
users’ systems and converting them into spam-sending
“drones” or “zombies”. These malicious programs spread
rapidly and generate massive amounts of spam pretending
to be sent from legitimate addresses.
It’s important for all computer owners to install and
maintain anti-virus software to avoid having their
computer infected and possibly become a source of spam
without their knowing.
Effects of spam
Aside from the amount of junk arriving in the Inboxes of
millions of innocent email users every day, spam can
have a more indirect and serious effect on email
services and their users.
Runbox has, like most email services, been a victim of
forgery by spammers using specially designed software to
generate false email headers and From addresses. Using
various server names and domains, they confuse domain
administrators, email services, and spam victims,
concealing the true origin of the messages. See
Wikipedia: E-mail_spoofing for more.
Hijacking of real users’ addresses or email accounts is
also common. Typically these messages will have the From
field showing something like “Lisa W Harold”
<info@runbox.com>. Please note that such messages have
no actual connection to Runbox (to see what a real
Runbox header looks like, look at this example). Runbox
does not in any way distribute our customers’ email
addresses, and is not a source of spam — directly or
indirectly.
Several email users have been affected by falsified
messages claiming to be from the service’s
administrators, stating that users’ account are closed
and require some action by the user to be reopened. Such
messages often contain viruses and should be ignored or
deleted.
When hijackers succeed in sending spam via an email
services, it can be temporarily blocked by other
services and private domains who try to protect
themselves. Runbox does everything we can to prevent
this, but it’s important that email users protect their
own account with strong passwords to prevent their
account being hijacked. See Tips for choosing and
protecting passwords for more information.
If you have had email sent from Runbox blocked by the
receiving service, please contact Runbox Support, and
also file a complaint to the postmaster or support desk
of the domain in question. Often, setting your From
address under preferences as @runbox.no or @runbox.us
will circumvent such domain blocks (all Runbox addresses
are synonymous on the .com, .no, and .us top level
domains).
Phishing
An increasingly common phenomenon is “phishing”, where
messages appearing to be sent from e.g. legitimate
financial institutions attempt to trick recipients into
“verifying” sensitive data (such as credit card
information) on fraudulent web sites.
Legitimate services will rarely (if ever) send messages
requesting you to click a link and provide personal or
sensitive information. Be sure to verify the source of
the message before complying with such a request.
If you receive messages claiming to originate with
payment services such as PayPal, eBay, financial
institutions, or even Runbox, please verify that the
message is indeed sent from the service in question:
Look at the links in the message in plain text (not
HTML) view. Verify that the actual link contains the
domain name (e.g. runbox.com or paypal.com), and not
another domain name or IP address, by hovering the mouse
pointer over the link while looking at the status bar of
your browser. Remember that links in an HTML message may
be “disguised” and link to a different server than it
appears to do.
Check the message headers. Look at the IP address of the
sending server and verify that it resolves to the
correct domain and country by using a service such as
DNSstuff.
Falsified messages will rarely address you by name or
provide any personal information about you except your
email address, because the senders do not have access to
such information.
See Wikipedia: Phishing for more information.
In the wake of the increased onslaught of junk clogging
mailboxes, aggravation and frustration has caused some
misguided accusations and misconceptions about how spam
is generated and sent. Runbox is dedicated to fighting
spam as effectively and unintrusively as possible, and
in our Terms of Service strictly prohibits our users
from sending any type of spam through Runbox.
What does Runbox do to fight spam?
Runbox runs restricted access servers only. This means
that it is impossible to send mail from us without
logging in as a registered user, and we can trace every
single mail orginating from our system.
Runbox supports the Sender Policy Framework for
verifying the senders of email messages. See Wikipedia
for more information.
Runbox offers state of the art spam protection to all
our users. It is a unique combination of the renowned
points-based SpamAssassin, and the “intelligent”
statistical spam filter Dspam.
Runbox checks major databases of spam originators such
as the The Spam and Open Relay Blocking System, Spamhaus
Zen Block List and Razor. Users can block senders and
domains themselves using the Block sender button on
mails, or the list directly, under Manager:Filter.
Runbox enforces strict quotas on outgoing email and does
not allow trial users (those who have not yet paid for
their account) to send email to more than 20 recipients
per day.
Complaints about users sent to abuse@runbox.com are
reviewed daily, and a single complaint is enough to shut
down a trial account, or even a subscribed one, if the
submitted email bears the hallmarks of spam, with no
valid disclaimer.
Runbox initially allows legitimate, double opt-in
Internet marketing mailings. However, such email MUST
include full disclaimers and numerous complaints will
still get accounts shut down.
Runbox manually reviews all account registrations
continuously, and we suspend any account that look
suspicious as a preventive measure.
Runbox does not provide “Challenge-Response” anti-spam
filtering, because it isn’t particularly effective, it
misplaces the burden of spam management on the sender
(which is often not the spammer due to forged messages),
and several other problems. See for instance this
article for more information: Challenge-Response Anti-
Spam Systems Considered Harmful.
receive it?
Spam email is a form of commercial advertising which is
economically viable because email is a very cost-
effective medium for the sender. If just a fraction of
the recipients of a spam message purchase the advertised
product, the spammers are making money and the spam
problem is perpetuated.
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Spammers harvest recipient addresses from publicly
accessible sources, use programs to collect addresses on
the web, and simply use dictionaries to make automated
guesses at common usernames at a given domain.
Spamming is politically debated in several countries,
and has been legislated some places with varying
results. Spammers often conceal or forge the origin of
their messages to circumvent laws, service provider
regulations, and anti-spammer lists used by anti-spam
software.
At the present more than 95% of email messages sent
worldwide is believed to be spam, making spam fighting
tools increasingly important to all users of email.
See SpamCop’s spam statistics to see the spam trend over
time: http://www.spamcop.net/spamgraph.shtml?spamyear
See Wikipedia for more about spam:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam.
Spam and viruses
Spam is increasingly sent from computers infected by
computer viruses. Virus-makers and spammers are
combining their efforts to compromise innocent computer
users’ systems and converting them into spam-sending
“drones” or “zombies”. These malicious programs spread
rapidly and generate massive amounts of spam pretending
to be sent from legitimate addresses.
It’s important for all computer owners to install and
maintain anti-virus software to avoid having their
computer infected and possibly become a source of spam
without their knowing.
Effects of spam
Aside from the amount of junk arriving in the Inboxes of
millions of innocent email users every day, spam can
have a more indirect and serious effect on email
services and their users.
Runbox has, like most email services, been a victim of
forgery by spammers using specially designed software to
generate false email headers and From addresses. Using
various server names and domains, they confuse domain
administrators, email services, and spam victims,
concealing the true origin of the messages. See
Wikipedia: E-mail_spoofing for more.
Hijacking of real users’ addresses or email accounts is
also common. Typically these messages will have the From
field showing something like “Lisa W Harold”
<info@runbox.com>. Please note that such messages have
no actual connection to Runbox (to see what a real
Runbox header looks like, look at this example). Runbox
does not in any way distribute our customers’ email
addresses, and is not a source of spam — directly or
indirectly.
Several email users have been affected by falsified
messages claiming to be from the service’s
administrators, stating that users’ account are closed
and require some action by the user to be reopened. Such
messages often contain viruses and should be ignored or
deleted.
When hijackers succeed in sending spam via an email
services, it can be temporarily blocked by other
services and private domains who try to protect
themselves. Runbox does everything we can to prevent
this, but it’s important that email users protect their
own account with strong passwords to prevent their
account being hijacked. See Tips for choosing and
protecting passwords for more information.
If you have had email sent from Runbox blocked by the
receiving service, please contact Runbox Support, and
also file a complaint to the postmaster or support desk
of the domain in question. Often, setting your From
address under preferences as @runbox.no or @runbox.us
will circumvent such domain blocks (all Runbox addresses
are synonymous on the .com, .no, and .us top level
domains).
Phishing
An increasingly common phenomenon is “phishing”, where
messages appearing to be sent from e.g. legitimate
financial institutions attempt to trick recipients into
“verifying” sensitive data (such as credit card
information) on fraudulent web sites.
Legitimate services will rarely (if ever) send messages
requesting you to click a link and provide personal or
sensitive information. Be sure to verify the source of
the message before complying with such a request.
If you receive messages claiming to originate with
payment services such as PayPal, eBay, financial
institutions, or even Runbox, please verify that the
message is indeed sent from the service in question:
Look at the links in the message in plain text (not
HTML) view. Verify that the actual link contains the
domain name (e.g. runbox.com or paypal.com), and not
another domain name or IP address, by hovering the mouse
pointer over the link while looking at the status bar of
your browser. Remember that links in an HTML message may
be “disguised” and link to a different server than it
appears to do.
Check the message headers. Look at the IP address of the
sending server and verify that it resolves to the
correct domain and country by using a service such as
DNSstuff.
Falsified messages will rarely address you by name or
provide any personal information about you except your
email address, because the senders do not have access to
such information.
See Wikipedia: Phishing for more information.
In the wake of the increased onslaught of junk clogging
mailboxes, aggravation and frustration has caused some
misguided accusations and misconceptions about how spam
is generated and sent. Runbox is dedicated to fighting
spam as effectively and unintrusively as possible, and
in our Terms of Service strictly prohibits our users
from sending any type of spam through Runbox.
What does Runbox do to fight spam?
Runbox runs restricted access servers only. This means
that it is impossible to send mail from us without
logging in as a registered user, and we can trace every
single mail orginating from our system.
Runbox supports the Sender Policy Framework for
verifying the senders of email messages. See Wikipedia
for more information.
Runbox offers state of the art spam protection to all
our users. It is a unique combination of the renowned
points-based SpamAssassin, and the “intelligent”
statistical spam filter Dspam.
Runbox checks major databases of spam originators such
as the The Spam and Open Relay Blocking System, Spamhaus
Zen Block List and Razor. Users can block senders and
domains themselves using the Block sender button on
mails, or the list directly, under Manager:Filter.
Runbox enforces strict quotas on outgoing email and does
not allow trial users (those who have not yet paid for
their account) to send email to more than 20 recipients
per day.
Complaints about users sent to abuse@runbox.com are
reviewed daily, and a single complaint is enough to shut
down a trial account, or even a subscribed one, if the
submitted email bears the hallmarks of spam, with no
valid disclaimer.
Runbox initially allows legitimate, double opt-in
Internet marketing mailings. However, such email MUST
include full disclaimers and numerous complaints will
still get accounts shut down.
Runbox manually reviews all account registrations
continuously, and we suspend any account that look
suspicious as a preventive measure.
Runbox does not provide “Challenge-Response” anti-spam
filtering, because it isn’t particularly effective, it
misplaces the burden of spam management on the sender
(which is often not the spammer due to forged messages),
and several other problems. See for instance this
article for more information: Challenge-Response Anti-
Spam Systems Considered Harmful.
