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- 1) A spam trap is the inclusion of an option in an online form that is preselected by default with the expectation that the user will fail to notice the option. If the form is submitted with the option selected, the user has given the company permission to send what will be junk e-mail or spam from the user's point-of-view. Spam trappers assume that some users do not read all of the form and will miss the spam trap. A spam trap is sometimes located toward the bottom of a form in smaller print. To avoid spam traps, make a habit of reading the entire form with special awareness of boxes that may need to be unchecked. Some advisors suggest having a separate e-mail account for online forms.

2) A quite different meaning for this term is the use of a software filter to block e-mail addresses that are known to send spam. Some Internet service providers (ISPs) use filters to prevent spam from reaching their customers. E-mail programs such as Outlook Express and Eudora allow the recipient to specify filters based on all or a portion of an e-mail address. These filters are not to be confused with content filters.

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Email security test: Basics and threats: Test your knowledge of email security essentials with this fifteen-question quiz from Joel Snyder.
Hacker's Challenge 3: Big Bait, Big Phish: In this excerpt from "Hacker's Challenge 3," author Bill Pennington describes a situation in which an organization's network is attacked and customer data is compromised.
A Business Guide to Information Security: Threats and Compliance: This excerpt from "A Business Guide to Information Security," identifies six future risks to information security and how they will affect individuals and organizations.

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-	Ezine-tips.com has another article that describes the problem of how to filter e-mail addresses that might or might not be spam.

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