Anti-spam pros know that this is the time of year for XMas-themed spam to start arriving in user's inboxes. Your users will start receiving "You've received a Christmas Card" emails, with clickable links to "play your card". Of course, that installs malware on their machines and potentially adds them to a growing botnet. Here's an example of some subject lines types:
- Christmas Gifts
- $1,000 cash for Christmas!
- kids project for Christmas
- You have received a Christmas Card!
- Combat your waistline in time for Christmas
It's important to be keeping an eye on incoming email campaigns, and watch what you click! Many antispam systems have a way for users to report any spam that happens to make it past them. At
CudaMail, our clients can use the
Outlook Plugin to communicate directly and immediately with the appliances in the rare case that a message makes it in.
The CudaMail team is keeping an eye on incoming volume and working to stay ahead of the expected campaigns, but get ready for the holiday season, - it's a great time for most of us, but to spammers it's just another opportunity.
