Believe it or not people these days still do not understand or know what spam is. I have an account at work where clients send in spam that has made it past our filtering system.
The majority of emails that arrive in this box have to do with whitelisting. Please see “Whitelisting should be a last resort” for more information about whitelisting.
The next set of emails I receive in this box are emails to people from crap they have signed up for. I have seen everything from peoples full names in the greeting, to phone numbers, address, and credit cards. People send in spam from companies such as Best Buy, Target, and WalMart. I’ve even seen an email from a large company to a client that was a credit card receipt of an item they had bought online. This is NOT spam.
So what is spam? Well defined by Trend Micro it is:
“any unsolicited communication”
The key word is Unsolicited. This is where people fail to understand what spam is. So what is Unsolicited, it means not looked for or requested. So if you give someone your email address, you conduct business with a company, or you sign up to a mailing list then it is not spam.
