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Navigate through the clutter of unwanted digital noise in our “Spam” category at BugsFighter.com. Spam can range from merely annoying to seriously harmful, involving unsolicited emails, SMS messages, and social media posts that can lead to phishing attacks, malware infections, and privacy breaches. Our expert articles offer strategies for identifying, managing, and preventing spam across various platforms. Learn how to effectively use filters, recognize phishing attempts, and safeguard your digital identity. Whether you’re an individual looking to protect your personal inbox or a business aiming to secure communications, find all the resources you need to keep spam at bay and maintain a clean digital environment.

How to stop OpenSea e-mail scam

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OpenSea email scam stands for a fake OpenSea campaign that distributes intentionally phishing letters. Initially, OpenSea is a legitimate and world-famous NFT marketplace allowing users to buy/sell their digital assets (NFTs). Unfortunately, there are cybercriminals impersonating its traits in such scam e-mail letters. These e-mail messages are often sent under the subject of "Migrate Your Ethereum Listings Starting Today" to fool OpenSea users into clicking on the suggested "Get Started" button. Scam developers claim it is necessary to extend Ethereum listings on a new smart contract unless users want to pay additional gas fees. In fact, this button is meant to trick users into revealing their log-in credentials to cybercriminals. As a result, victims can end up being robbed on both the NFT marketplace and cryptocurrency wallets. If you, yourself, became a victim of this scam scheme, we therefore strongly advise you to change your password and secret phrases in order to prevent swindlers from abusing your data again. Even better would be to create a completely new account from scratch. To be more protected against such phishing attacks in the future, it is important to be careful and double-check the information provided. You can also read our guide below for more useful tips about staying secure on the Internet.

How to stop “Unfortunately, There Are Some Bad News For You” e-mail spam

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"Unfortunately, There Are Some Bad News For You" is a pure e-mail scam message. It is designed and promoted by cybercriminals to extort money from users based on privacy threats. To elaborate, the message contains a fake and explicit story (maybe in different languages) claiming the recipient was captured on camera while visiting adult-oriented resources. This happened, extortionists say, due to a malware infection that attacked the system and granted developers remote access to PC features several months ago. The information is followed by threats to spread the allegedly recorded content to friends and third-party entities interested in its monetization. Cybercriminals ask to pay about $1750 in Bitcoin for the prevention of leakage. As we already mentioned above, there is nothing users should worry about since all the written claims are fake and do not bare real threats to users who received them. Therefore, this or any similar message should be ignored and reported as spam to avoid its delivery in the future. In general, this type of scam is used quite often - fraudulent figures try to create a story that would potentially coincide with what users were doing at a given point in time. Below, we have created a guide with useful tips on how to avoid such e-mail scam techniques and lower the chance of their delivery.

How to get rid of spam in e-mail

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There is no doubt that e-mail has already taken a large part of people's online activity these days. It is now the main departure point for registering at various websites and resources. Any internet user has at least one, if not many e-mail addresses registered and used for various goals, be it a person-to-person communication, receiving different newsletters, updates, or simply as a two-level authentication tool for log-in security measures. While this all sounds useful indeed, there is a dark side to this - a huge and new opportunity for cybercriminals to deliver illegitimate and intentionally malicious content to users. Such a phenomenon is known as e-mail spam. Many e-mail services are always developing new and improving existing algorithms to detect potential spam and prevent inexperienced users from falling into the evil hands of various frauds. These anti-spam mechanisms are educated enough to identify potentially unwanted messages based on different triggers (sender's IP-address reputation, spammy language content, world-known blacklists, etc.). Having some e-mail letters categorized as spam should push users to be more careful and less trustworthy with regard to the message. Unfortunately, there are cases when spam goes undetected being delivered straight into your Inbox. A large number of newsletter subscriptions accumulated over long-time usage can also create a flood of unnecessary messages blurring your eye. Whatever it is, we are going to show how one can get rid of e-mail spam and slow its frequency rates. The guide below will give useful recommendations with guidelines for the world's most used e-mail services like Gmail, Yahoo, Apple Mail, and Microsoft Outlook.