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Most of us have opened our email program and found, alongside correspondence from people that we know, offers for products from commercial web sites. Some of these emails we expect. We have asked to be notified of sales and other opportunities or joined a mailing list offered by the company.

Many times, however, the offers are from companies that we have never done business with and may have never even heard of. This is Spam, unsolicited bulk email, and can quickly lead to a massive overload of your inbox.

Identifying Spam as soon as it occurs is the first step to preventing it from happening again. Once your email address is in circulation with these companies, you are well on your way to a very nasty problem. Advertising from legitimate companies is one form. The rest are for illegal services, pornographic material, questionable products, and fraudulent schemes. It is invasive and many times illegal. Spam is the worst form of junk mail and a typical reason why many people have to change their email addresses.

In best cases, the clue can be found in the subject line. If you are offered quick money or a chance to find your long lost high school classmate, you can probably guess that it is Spam.

You may be amazed that, as you read your email, that these companies claim a right to send you this email because you have a relationship with one of their “partners” or “affiliates”. All that this may mean is that they bought your email address from another company with dubious privacy policies. It is still Spam.

Spammers will try to trick you. Unfortunately for us, Spammers only need a response rate, by some estimates, of 0.0001% in order to be profitable. This means that they will use practically any measure to get you to open it before hitting the delete button. You may receive an email from Grandma or one asking for help in the subject line. Before you know it, you are reading their advertisement, if only out of curiosity.

Check the dates and times on any email that you are unsure of. These companies know that many email programs will sort the inbox by the earliest mail sent. As a result, they place false send dates and times on their Spam hoping that you will open them first.

The worst has to be the ones that seem to come from companies that you know and trust. They may claim to be from your internet service provider in the subject line or have a similar address to that company’s name. It may look like it is from the accounts payable department of a major law firm.

Spammers count on your curiosity and hope that you will respond. Even if you don’t buy anything, they now know that your email address is connected to a live person and, if nothing else, can sell that address to someone else.

Read the To and From fields in any questionable email that you receive. If the To field is empty or filled with an anonymous address, then you have Spam. An anonymous address is typically something like freeoffer@happydays.com.

An address from someone that you do not know through an account at hotmail, yahoo, or msn is probably Spam. These are anonymous, easy to get accounts that spammers use and then discard when they are done. By the time the Service Provider has been made aware that spam is originating from these accounts, the spammer is gone.

Scrambled, random addresses (X12YT853@yahoo.com) from accounts like these are definitely not to be trusted regardless of the content.

Finally, if the email contains a story in which you are asked to do anything to help anyone, check the story out online. There are several great websites like truthorfiction.com that will help you sort through any potential scams or hoaxes perpetuated through email.

These stories can range from silly pranks to dangerous fraud schemes and may need to be reported to the proper authorities before someone, like you, finds their bank account drained.

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A major event within the Euromillions Euro lottery is the Loteria de El Gordo which you may well wish to know more about. Boasting one of the biggest jackpots worldwide, this wager offers pots ranging from eighty-four million to 2.6 billion Euros. And neither is this the lottery’s only claim to fame. With more than 13,000 prizes available, your chances of winning a prize mean that there is one winning ticket in every six. These are truly remarkable odds when examined in the context of other major lotteries.

Now, if you want to get in on the action there is an entire ticket called a “serie”. Also available for purchase is a “d©cimo”, which is worth one-tenth of a full ticket. This is the cheaper option. Both serie and decimo have an equal chance to win, but of course the payout varies according to what you spend at the start. Because of this the Euromillions Euro Lotto also offers an e-lottery system.

There is one draw each month in the Euromillions Euro lottery. Bigger prizes can be won at special lotteries held during three months around the year. Largest of all the draws is “El Gordo” which is held around Xmas, while the other two special drawings occur in January (”El Nio”) and summer (”San Ildefonso”).

In an atypical approach to draws, the balls used in the Elgordo lotto display five digits on each, in a numerical range from 00,000 to 84,999. The system presses two bowls into service, with one used in determining a winner, the second the amount.

Everyone is certain of winning a prize if play the e-lottery system. You’re automatically assigned a team when you buy in to the Elgordo Lottery syndicate. With each team numbered between zero and nine, the final digit on the winning number picks the winning team who will go on to take the money. A fair distribution of the prize amongst the team follows. Everyone subscribes again for the next month’s draw and the cycle begins again.

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Lord Mandelson recently reaffirmed the government’s stand on illegal downloading and stated that the Government has planned to implement strict measures to combat this menace.

The proposed strict measures include capping the broadband access and lowering the speed of access initially, failing which the government plans to disconnect the services of the offender permanently.

The Department of Business, Skills and Innovation has stated that the government is proposing to implement its new legislation by April 2010, which will contain slightly lenient measures. However, if offenders are not deterred by these measures then it will be followed by a stricter law mooting disconnection of services, which will be implemented by spring 2011. The government is planning to rope in Ofcom to monitor and report the statistics of such illegal file sharing.

TalkTalk, a leading ISP, in a recent interview to the BBC, has however opposed this move categorically and has called it unprincipled and impractical. Further, a TalkTalk representative added that if the government forces such measures on ISPs, the latter might challenge it in court.

Lord Mandelson, defending the new law, stated that disconnection will be the ultimate mode of punishment for illegal downloading. Initially, all offenders will be given two warnings, but if they fail to stop their activities, then the government will punish them by discontinuing their internet services.

Both the internet service provider as well as the content provider will share the cost of implementation of such measures.

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If you have a Website you probably look at search engine results and try to guess how you can get more traffic from them. Many people focus only on Google but millions of Websites receive a lot of traffic from Microsoft’s Bing and Yahoo!. The great thing about today’s search engines is that they serve up billions of queries to hundreds of millions of people every month. Just about anyone who wants to get traffic from search engines should be able to find a few topics where they can get the visitors they need.

One of the most creative talents in the Web marketing field, SEO theory, has proposed that people can “build query spaces”. This means that you create a Web site that ranks well for an expression that no one searches on and then you teach people to search for that expression. This is most often achieved through a mix of advertising and publicity, where you develop a story around your keywords and then tell that story to people over and over again. If the story is compelling enough people will search on the keywords.

And for those people who doubt the viability of this method, the SEO Theory story is living proof that the method works. Only a few years ago no one was searching on the term “SEO theory”. Now, not only do people search for “SEO theory”, they also try to compete with the original SEO theory site for its own name.

Of course, trying to steal the thunder of the best SEO theory guide on the Web is probably not the smartest thing a marketer can do. After all, waiting until after SEO Theory has been used to dominate a query space stacks the odds in the incumbent’s favor — and that’s just not very good SEO theory at all.

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I’m really, truly fed up with spam. Every day when the spam arrives and Norton Security moves it into the Norton Anti-spam folder of my Outlook email client, I wonder how anyone can be so incredibly stupid as to waste their time sending me such garbage.

Let’s face it; I never read it. I never buy anything from unsolicited sources or do anything as a result of spam. I detest it! And God knows I don’t need viagra, however many times it’s offered.

What fool would send anyone a message about a mortgage application approval when he has owned his house for years?

What fool would write offering me a peep at her new porn site? I’m not interested in porn … I prefer the real thing. Offer me something tangible and I may get excited.

I guess you probably feel the same.

Unfortunately, the plague of spam isn’t going to fade away any time soon, although authorities (at least in Australia) have started taking legal action and imposing hefty penalties for spamming. Hallelujah!

As a last resort, I decided to make my own small contribution to reducing the spam plague. If each of us does something, the cumulative effect will be damaging to the spammers. Here’s what I did. I’ve collected thousands of email addresses that arrived in spam messages and ended up in my blacklist. I decided I’d give those people using automatic harvesting software an opportunity to suck up all those addresses and reuse them.

I’ve dedicated quite a few pages on my site that have nothing but the email addresses from the blacklist. That is, the addresses of the spammers, most of which are false and don’t lead to anyone … at least not to anyone who can read (otherwise I’d include an obscene message).

When the spam harvesting software goes through my site, it won’t find a single working email address in my site proper, but it will stumble on a goldmine of addresses and load them into it’s database. It will be stuffed full of email addresses, none of which work. The spammers will pay to send them out and they’ll bounce somewhere, hopefully right back to them.

Imagine what would happen if we all did that? There would be so many dud addresses floating around that harvesting would be a waste of time. the spammers would all go away and do something legitimate … perhaps.

You and I would get some relief from these annoying intruders in our email inboxes.

If you are in a position to load your site with a few thousand dud email addresses, why not give it a go and Stuff the Spammers?

First released May 2005. Copyright Robin Henry 2005

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When playing in the Spanish Lotto with elottery you can be confident that you will be in very capable hands. My estimate is that Virtual World Direct is amongst biggest buyers of lotto tickets; if they are not the largest Spanish Superdraw lottery ticket purchaser.

They have over two hundred thousand paying customers playing the Spanish lottery, Euro Millions and the UK lotto of which the Spanish lottery is presumably going to be the biggest elottery syndicate. Launched in 2002 and a long established member of the lottery council vwd have all the credibly that is needed, plus a excellent track record.

To take part in an e-lottery syndicate you must pay £5.00 once a week for the Uk Lottery and the Euro lottery with the Spanish Superdraw costing £20 per month (Only monthly subscriptions). Being part of a syndicate evidently reduces your individual pay out but then it does increase your prospects of winning and because of the unique way the lotto numbers are formulated the chances of winning is multiplied even further!

The business sector opportunity is another produced Virtual World Direct offers and now they have shed the joining up fee and the yearly subscriptions therefore anyone interest in making an additional income will capitalise. The way it works is if an affiliate introduces a player to any of Euro lottery, UK lotto or the Spanish Superdraw syndicates, virtual-world-direct will give that affiliate 20 per cent of that participants subscription, also, if that player decides to become an affiliate, the affiliate that introduced them will have five % of that player/affiliates earning, down to level seven. Global revenue is another bonus that rewards affiliates that get to a minimum level within e-lottery with a share of the companys world-wide profits.

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