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Email Spam: Questions

Email spam is unsolicited commercial email, often sent in bulk. Spammers send spam for reasons like advertising products, spreading malware, or phishing for personal information. Spammers obtain email addresses through email harvesting from websites and forums or purchasing lists of addresses. People can recognize spam through clues like unfamiliar senders, misleading subjects, poor grammar/spelling, and requests for personal information. To prevent spam, people should use strong passwords, be wary of unsolicited attachments/links, and configure filters.

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Email Spam: Questions

Email spam is unsolicited commercial email, often sent in bulk. Spammers send spam for reasons like advertising products, spreading malware, or phishing for personal information. Spammers obtain email addresses through email harvesting from websites and forums or purchasing lists of addresses. People can recognize spam through clues like unfamiliar senders, misleading subjects, poor grammar/spelling, and requests for personal information. To prevent spam, people should use strong passwords, be wary of unsolicited attachments/links, and configure filters.

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Email Spam

Questions:
1. Describe what email spam is.

2. What is a spammer?

3. List 3 reasons that people send spam.



4. Explain what email harvesting.

5. List 4 ways that spammers can obtain your email address.




6. Explain 5 ways that you can recognize spam.

1.

2.

3.

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4.

7. Describe 2 ways that you can prevent spam.

1.

2.

Extension work:
Use Microsoft Publisher to create an A4 poster which highlights the different ways you can recognize and prevent
spam emails:

 Explain what spam is


 Explain how you can recognize spam emails
 Explain how you can prevent spam emails
 Uses images to highlight points
 Is colourful and attractive.

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