Spam and Hoaxes

 

  What spam and hoaxes are?

     spam:unsolicited junk e-mai.

     hoaxes:blatantly false e-mail intended to alarm others, spread urban myths, or to just plain       spread like wildfire no matter the content.

  What is the target of the hoaxes?

     The target of the hoaxes is to be redirected to thousand of persons in order to get the e-           mail addresses for futures actions of spams or phising.

   How can we fight against hoaxes?

   Identify them and stop them from forwoarding to other systems

   I recommend this web page: 

     snoppes (Snopes.com  )

   Here you have two examples of hoaxes: 

     Walt Disney is frozen.(false)

      Bill Gates told George Magazine that an ‘Over-Populated Planet’ would fall to a ‘Lung-

      Attacking Virus’(false)