Anti-spam experts have been warning emailers to ignore mail they receive offering them to buy Valetines goods. Many email users have bought goods through these Spam emailers, and it only results in keeping Spammers in business.

There have been thousands of mails sent so far intending to sell Valentines related products, with varying subject lines relating to gifts such as lingerie, flowers and chocolates.

"This year spammers are not only suggesting goods you can buy for your loved ones at Valentine's, they're also peddling ways to make yourself more attractive to the opposite sex, such as teeth whitening products. As our poll has proved, the sad truth is that there are people out there who buy products sold via spam, and admit they visit websites promoted via bulk email," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos. "But if you buy goods marketed via spam then you are simply encouraging the spammers to send more junk email. If no-one purchased the products then the spammers would disappear. It's time to boycott the companies who use spam to sell their goods. If you receive an unsolicited commercial email don't try, don't buy, don't reply."

This problem, as with many spam issues, can be combated using ArmourPlate. The ArmourPlate Anti Spam service works by scanning your company's email to stop spam before it reaches your computer network. Your company's email is filtered by our proprietary, highly sophisticated spam recognition engine, 'Robot 5', which will detect almost all spam and places it in an individual user's Spam Box, housed on the ArmourPlate system. Each email user can view their Spam Box via a Web browser.

By not having ArmourPlate your company is at very real risk.

Using the ArmourPlate service will safeguard your company and save you money.
ArmourPlate is considerably more cost effective than tackling the spam and virus problem internally.

Having spam and virus emails stopped at source, saves you from investing in hardware, software and IT time, freeing up resources to focus on other issues.

No more spam. No more viruses. Simple!

Source: Various

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