SPAM AND HOAXES
SPAM AND HOAXES
- What spam and hoaxes are?
They are different types of malware:
Spam or junk mail are e-mail messages unsolicited, unwanted or with unknown sender.
Hoaxes are massive trickeries by electronic means, specially internet.
- What is the tarject of the hoaxes?
It's to be redirected to thousand of persons in order to get the e-mail addresses
for futures actions of spams or phising.
- How can we fight against hoaxes?
To fight against them, e-mail suppkiers have systems to avoid them (antiviruses).
- I recommend the next page: www.snopes.com
- Here you have two examples of hoaxes:
Walt Disney is frozen; Trump suggested injecting disinfectants as COVID-19 treatment.
To fight against hoaxes, there are web pages which have information about these hoaxes. It is important to check these web pages, before sending these `solidarity ́ messages to all our contacts
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