Author Archives: Kim Falkner

About Kim Falkner

VP Marketing for SPAMfighter. Follow me on Google+ (+Kim Falkner) or LinkedIn (Kim Falkner on LinkedIn)

Nigerian email scams are amongst the oldest tricks in the book. You have likely received emails from strange characters offering you US $50 million in return for assistance with a bank transfer or helping with safe passage of a dictator’s …

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Warning! This blog post contains some serious bragging, but yes, it’s true and remember where you heard it first! Our beloved spam filter SPAMfighter made an appearance on the Atlanta based News outlet CNN on 17. July.  CNN often showcases …

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Here at SPAMfighter, we generally try to avoid making assumptions about the characteristics and qualities of our users. However, in order to make our software your best line of defense from spam, viruses and spyware, it’s in our best interest …

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Recently, we had the pleasure of studying 5.9 million spam mails sent in July 2011 in the effort to understand which celebrites were the most commonly used as bait by spammers. Using celebrities as bait in spam mails is of …

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We’ve been hearing strange stories that some people actually create Facebook profiles for their cats & dogs. Let’s hold that thought and assume that your kitchen sink or your trusted computer had a Facebook profile as well.  It’s not so …

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