India Tops Target List For Spam 107
Ant wrote to mention a ZDNet news report on the realities of spam traffic. The U.S. is still the number one producer/distributor of spam in the world. However, with their quick adoption of technology over the last few years, Indian users are now top targets for spam. From the article: "India's rapid adoption of new technology has left its PC users struggling to cope with very high levels of spam, according to a report released Wednesday. Ninety-one percent of email traffic sent to Indian PC users is spam, according to email security company MessageLabs, which warned that the rate of technological advancement has outstripped growth in security awareness. 'There is booming technology in India, but it has been suggested there is little thought for security, which creates a market to exploit that,' said Paul Wood, security analyst at MessageLabs."
Re:Who's really surprised? (Score:2)
Hello! I've got a wonderful business opportunity for you. I have a large sum of money stuck in a bank account. If you can send me $$$ I can compensate you 4x time that when I get my funds released....
or something to that affect. I wonder if the address to mail the money to is now in the US rather than somewhere in India?
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And no, not all Indians are bad at English. And your comments about the western world were stupid and ignorant. Perhaps you need to learn more about how the world really is.
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Somebdy plz hlp me undrstnd how dis is relevant (cudnt find shorter version of this) to d topic!!!!!!!!!!!!
Talk about being off.
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I do however think that life in US is too easy. I can work in Walmart or McDonald's with no skills at all and expect to get all my basic needs answered and even be respected. Not enough motivation to push the limits. Of course, I am n
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Re:Yuck (Score:1)
That, sir, was fantastic. Badiya!
Re:Yuck (Score:1)
ROFL.
Re:Who's really surprised? (Score:1)
Wow ... ridiculously ignorant cultural stereotypes - not just for whites anymore!
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Okay there are a lot of Indian Engineers desperate to get some pussy but the reason is life in India is tough and guys who make it to Engineering college give more priority to making a career than getting pussy.
See Indian guys know once they have thei
Re:Who's really surprised? (Score:1)
You know what India is? It's a nation of denial and cultural repression. You all can foam about the mouths because of w
Re:Who's really surprised? (Score:3, Informative)
Where do you get this crap? India has a pretty low [nationmaster.com] HIV rate, and per capita is actually very close the HIV rate in the US.
Re:Who's really surprised? (Score:1)
http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/press/1997/DECEMBER
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2005-02-23-aid s-india-cover_x.htm?csp=34 [usatoday.com]
http://qa.aidsmatters.org/answer/13479/ [aidsmatters.org]
http://indiatogether.org/2005/jun/ksh-blaming.htm [indiatogether.org]
http://www.youandaids.org/Asia%20Pacific%20at%20a% 20Glance/India/index.asp [youandaids.org]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3886883.stm [bbc.co.uk]
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/04/08/60minute s/main610961.shtml [cbsnews.com]
Maybe they do have a very low per capita incidince o
Re:Who's really surprised? (Score:2)
That BBC article confuses the notion of "rate" with "absolute number":
The world's second most populous country has one of the highest infection rates - and more than five million HIV/Aids cases.
I think you are making the same mistake; having a large number of HIV cases is only to be expected when you have such an incredibly huge population. The rest of the articles make the same mistake ... looking at a large absolute figure and concluding that it's all "really really terrible". But five million, althoug
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oh, let me guess, only people with serious issues with
getting it up, if by chance up, geting in to do the job guy!!!
On a serious note, do u really believe that people are living
on road along side elephants!! wake up buddy before you
loose the new job you got!!
Hmm ... (Score:2)
Appropriate, considering that a large proportion of the spam I receive is about "offshoring oppportunities" in India.
Re:Hmm ... (Score:1)
A bit late for that. (Score:2)
That happened the first time one of our grandmothers got a computer "to look at the online." The day computers outgrew the subset of the population who knew everything about how to use them safely is long past.
Re:A bit late for that. (Score:2)
I thought it happened the first time a business major looked into the engineering department to see the flashing lights on that computer thingy that everyone was talking about.
Of course, if we looked into history, we probably would find tricked out abacuses in ancient China.
The interesting thing here is that US computer knowledge has evolved along with the evolution of computer threats. Many people in India are getting their introduc
Wo-ho! US banking spam (Score:3, Funny)
Hehe. Come on, let's get started! How do you say "penis pills" in Hindi?
Re:Wo-ho! US banking spam (Score:1)
We say "HangingChad"...
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Re:Xenophobic or just going on experience (Score:2, Insightful)
Wow. You extrapolated that from a sample size of 2 (out of an Indian population of 1 billion?) ? Can we nominate you for the Slashdot's Stupidity Hall of Fame?
Re:Wo-ho! US banking spam (Score:2)
Laude Lasoon.
Re:Wo-ho! US banking spam (Score:3, Funny)
Can I now interest you in a set of course of Tantric knowledge on how to enlarge your hmmm ego?? Only 19.95 plus delivery .
Re:Wo-ho! US banking spam (Score:1)
Land ki dawai.
AntiSpam software and outdated sendmailers (Score:1)
It somehow claims to be outdated open-relay-sendmail and could be easily replaced by other software - like some of the rest of the world you have to change and adapt to common evolutions, or could it be that this is a commercial stunt on selling Anti-Spam software...
Re:I Don't Believe It But, Hell Yea! (Score:2)
That's about the same for me on my oldest (10+ years) email that sits on mailing lists and the like.
But
Go online
The asymptote of ham to spam for that cycle is 100% spam.
When will it end?! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:When will it end?! (Score:2)
If you think that's madness, you just wait till they have more nukes [wikipedia.org] than we do.
Spam doesn't go over well in India... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Spam doesn't go over well in India... (Score:1, Offtopic)
Re:Spam doesn't go over well in India... (Score:1)
Re:Spam doesn't go over well in India... (Score:1)
Microsoft has a creative solution (Score:1)
Re:Microsoft has a creative solution (Score:1)
ASCII art of penis pills along with before and after illustrations isn't that hard. However, if they don't use fixed-pitched fonts, it might look like a warped cucumber. Breast enlargers may be easier.
(.)(.)
Re:Source of the Spam (Score:1)
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! ROTFLMAO on the best pun on a country's name I've seen in ages! sniff... sniff.... [wipes eyes].... HAHAHAHAHA !
Little thought for security? (Score:1)
I wonder if the "little thought for security" also applies to the call centers there, who have access to at least some customer information, certainly including email addresses, and likely including home addresses.
Note that I am not bashing the quality of phone support sourced from the subcontinent. I have had good and bad support experiences with people from all over
for the mods (Score:2, Insightful)
Following this observation, I wouldn't be suprised if this post gets labelled Flaimbait either..
Re:for the mods (Score:2)
negative comments about indians = funny
negative comments about microsoft = insightful
negative comments about apple = troll
negative comments about slashdot = redundant
yeah, lets kill each other first! (Score:1)
i am shocked to see how much hatred brews under the hood of all these free spirted guys. Me included, my first reaction when somebody pulls a bad one me is to get right back. But given the facts, we didnt go to US or whatever other country to oursource jobs, it was in US citizen's hand to do it and they did it, and if by any chance, you can take a fact from an Asian, do understand that its all money games. You start bad mouthing me, I start wid my own things, but do understand how did we reach
Not really... (Score:2)
And 90% spam isn't unusual. Only if it's getting *past* your filters, although the article seems to suggest that there aren't any.
Spam in India (Score:1)
MessageLabs (Score:2)
So much hulla-boo when the study itself is not credible.
90% of the statistic is made up. Or in the MessageLabs' case -- made up of 10% of the information.
Alternative explanation (Score:2)
No corruption spam... (Score:1)
Re:Elsewhere in the article: (Score:1)
From this A: some stats on weapons sales to our "friends" including the UAE [thirdworldtraveler.com]: * $2 billion of AMRAAMs, ammunition and bombs to complement a previous $6-8 billion F- 16 fighter jet sale to the United Arab Emirates. The U.A.E. has also demanded the computer coding for the F- 1 6s which would enable it to modify or replicate the jet's intelligence. If the U.A.E. gets the source code, other buyers will be sure to want it too.
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