In today's fast-breaking email of the day we'll share with you the top 3 reasons why spammers love Hotmail.
Today, MailGuard stopped thousands of fast-breaking emails with the subject line “work from home vacancy!”.
US company Lux Products (or sometimes American Luxury Goods) is looking for managerial sales support representatives from Australia to work remotely from home and help out on important projects. Despite the importance of the role, the sender address is from Hotmail - the free popular webmail service.
Messages are being sent automatically rather manually. You can see the email below:
Spammers love HotmailWhy does so much spam get relayed from Hotmail?
It’s not unusual that large volumes of automated spam get relayed via Hotmail. Spammers love Hotmail for three key reasons...
1. Hotmail gets the structure of messages right. The Hotmail system generates email message headers that adhere to appropriate standards. Poorly-formed headers are one of the biggest tell-tale signs that a message is spam. They will trigger any sophisticated spam filter. By relaying through Hotmail, spammers negate this problem.
2. Hotmail delivers a lorry-load of legitimate messages. Because users typically receive a great deal of legitimate messages from Hotmail, it prevents filters from being able to blacklist Hotmail servers.
3. Hotmail’s powerful network of mail servers. Hotmail has a large, powerful network of mail servers allowing spammers to send a great deal of spam in a short amount of time.
NB: Hotmail is not the only free messaging service that gets a lot of love from spammers. Yahoo and AOL get a lot of love too.
What you can do to stop this kind of spam?
Users who don’t have an email filtering service in place should be vigilant when receiving messages from unknown Hotmail users.
But to really stamp out spam and clutter from their inbox, it pays to get rid of unwanted content altogether.
You can protect your business today and remove 99.997% of spam with a 14 day free trial from MailGuard.
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