Ghana Spams Using Search Engines
GHANA (OCN) — How does spam and fake emails get to your inbox? Simple. You may have provided it to them.
@earthlink.net
@comcast.net
@hotmail.com
@icq.com
@aol.com
@gmail.com
Above are famous email accounts used by people so the the phrase “@earthlink.net @comcast.net @hotmail.com @icq.com @aol.com @gmail.com” is ented into a search engine and the result are then copied into a database to receive spam later.
How do we know this works? Yesterday, our server reported over five (5) such query from ICQ Search from computers user in Greater Accra, Ghana.