{"id":243,"date":"2008-11-10T19:01:09","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T17:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jobshuk.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/10\/official-statement-on-recent-spam-activity\/"},"modified":"2008-11-10T19:01:09","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T17:01:09","slug":"official-statement-on-recent-spam-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobshuk.com\/zvi\/2008\/11\/10\/official-statement-on-recent-spam-activity\/","title":{"rendered":"Official Statement on recent SPAM activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, a spammer entered JobShuk and sent out e-mails to many of the users, making vague overtures, followed by standard Scam claims, e.g. millions of dollars in wire transfers, etc.&nbsp; Most of you quickly realized that this was a scam, and have already done what should be done with such SPAM &#8211; deleted it.&nbsp; If you&#8217;ve made contact with this person, identified as Lillian Muhammed Atif, please break contact immediately.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to publicly apologize for this infiltration. I understand that giving out your contact information online is always a calculation of risk vs. reward, and I appreciate your taking the risk with JobShuk. It is our full intention to deliver those rewards to you, and prevent, as best we can, further irrelevant solicitations or scams.<\/p>\n<p>As further clarification,&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The e-mail was not sent by JobShuk itself, but by an unscrupulous site visitor.<\/li>\n<li>The culprit did <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">not<\/span> compromise the security of our mailing list, and our site has not been Hacked. You will not receive subsequent SPAMs, and &quot;Lillian&quot; does not have your contact information unless you replied to the initial contact.<\/li>\n<li>JobShuk is not susceptible to bots (programs that spider the Internet looking for e-mail addresses). The attack was a human who registered on the site, and browsed from profile to profile, completing the online contact form.<\/li>\n<li>The e-mail format sent out is a valid e-mail as a result from someone filling-out the contact form on a profile page. If you receive an e-mail of the same format in the future, do not disregard it as SPAM &#8211; it&#8217;s most likely a genuine contact. E-mails from your contact form will contain a subject: &quot;New message from your JobShuk contact form&quot;<\/li>\n<li>The SPAM did not contain any viruses, as attachments are not allowed via the contact forms.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To prevent such behavior in the future, we are adding to our current security system some or all of the following precautions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A daily message limit for each user, so that mass quantities of mail cannot be sent out by any individual again.<\/li>\n<li>Blacklist checks, forbidding users on flagged computer terminals from using the site.<\/li>\n<li>SPAM filters, requiring every message sent out to pass a strict SPAM rating system. &nbsp;Flagged messages will be manually monitored, and valid messages will be passed on to the intended recipients.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I thank you for using JobShuk, and for understanding that such inconveniences happen. We, at JobShuk, look forward to being with you through your future continued successes.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Zvi Landsman<br \/>Founder &amp; CTO, JobShuk <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, a spammer entered JobShuk and sent out e-mails to many of the users, making vague overtures, followed by standard Scam claims, e.g. millions of dollars in wire transfers, etc.&nbsp; Most of you quickly realized that this was a scam, and have already done what should be done with such SPAM &#8211; deleted it.&nbsp; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobshuk.com\/zvi\/2008\/11\/10\/official-statement-on-recent-spam-activity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Official Statement on recent SPAM activity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-jobshuk","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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