diff --git a/Home.md b/Home.md index 11af6a7..6201c69 100644 --- a/Home.md +++ b/Home.md @@ -19,6 +19,19 @@ New Zealand * https://cleantalk.org/blacklists/report-ip * https://www.dnsbl.info/report-spam.php +## Criteria for spam + +* The sender’s email address doesn’t tally with the trusted organisation’s website address. +* The email is sent from a completely different address or a free web mail address. +* The email does not use your proper name, but uses a non-specific greeting like “dear customer”. +* A sense of urgency; for example the threat that unless you act immediately your account may be closed. +* A prominent website link. These can be forged or seem very similar to the proper address, but even a single character’s difference means a different website. +* A request for personal information such as user name, password or bank details. +* The email contains spelling and grammatical errors. +* You weren't expecting to get an email from the company that appears to have sent it. +* The entire text of the email is contained within an image rather than the usual text format. +* The image contains an embedded hyperlink to a bogus site. + ## Versions Versions names are based on: