GOT SPAM? Spam is the unsolicited or undesired bulk electronic messages. Spam usually contains...
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GOT SPAM? Spam is the unsolicited or undesired bulk electronic messages. Spam usually contains pornography, viruses, phishing attacks, scams, trojans, spyware, worms, frauds, drugs and more. Currently, the most used method to control spam are filters. They apply several criteria to the incoming emails to identify spam.
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GOT SPAM?
Spam is the unsolicited or undesired bulk electronic messages.
Spam usually contains pornography, viruses, phishing attacks, scams, trojans, spyware, worms, frauds, drugs and more.
Currently, the most used method to control spam are filters. They apply several criteria to the incoming emails to identify spam.
John Doe
John’s MailboxSpam Filter
Mail Server
Uncle Albert
Spammer
Inbox
Junk Mail
SPAM FILTERS
The problem is that spammers are getting smarter, and they are using a number of techniques to circumvent the filters. The result is that spam bypasses the filters and some is delivered to your inbox, and even worse, legitimate messages are also misidentified as spam.
John Doe
John’s MailboxFIGTSPAMtm
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OUR APPROACH
It is time to place the doorman FIGTSPAMtm at the entrance of the inbox and let only well known people in.We accomplish this by creating a list of approved senders, and by providing the user (John in this example) with the tools to keep that list updated with only people he trusts.
Approved Senders
Uncle AlbertSister Suzie Brother MichaelAuntie Gin
Spam Control System
FIGTSPAMtm is a trademark of Suncoast Secure Mail
tm and its
acronym means Find, Grab and Terminate Spam by using a Personal Authorization Method. FIGTSPAM
tm is a patent-pending
innovative and efficient spam control system not based on filters.
John Doe
John’s MailboxFIGTSPAMtm
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PASSCODE AND PERSONAL QUESTIONS
John also needs to create a Passcode and a list of personal questions about himself. This is a one time task, and it only needs maintenance once in a while.
Approved Senders
Uncle AlbertSister Suzie Brother MichaelAuntie Gin
Passcode
Spam Control System
Zerimxv21
List of Personal Questions
1. City where I Live2. My Phone Number3. Co. Where I work
What happens with people who want to contact John, but are not in his approved list of senders? In this case the message is not initially delivered to John’s inbox.
Our system returns a message to the sender, and asks him/her to access an Internet page. On that page the sender must answer one of the questions that John previously defined (e.g. city where he lives). Only people who know him will be able to answer correctly.
After a correct response, John’s also previously defined Passcode will be provided to the sender along with simple instructions on how to use it. Then all the sender has to do is include this Passcode in the Subject line or in the message body and send the message again. Now our system will deliver the message to John, and add the sender's email address to his approved list of senders. This will give this sender access to send messages to John in the future until he removes it from his approved list.
SENDERS NOT IN THE APPROVED LIST
John Doe
John’s MailboxFIGTSPAMtm
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SENDERS NOT IN THE APPROVED LIST
Approved Senders
Uncle AlbertSister Suzie Brother MichaelAuntie Gin
Passcode
Spam Control System
Zerimxv21
List of Perssonal Questions
1. City where I Live2. My Phone Number3. Co. Where I work
Brother George
Since George is not in John’s approved list of senders, his mail is rejected and he is directed to John’s list of personal questions.
After George answers one question correctly, he will receive the Passcode
John Doe
John’s MailboxFIGTSPAMtm
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l Ser
verInbox
SENDER ADDED TO THE APPROVED LIST
Approved Senders
Uncle AlbertSister Suzie Brother MichaelAuntie GinBrother George
Passcode
Spam Control System
Zerimxv21
List of Perssonal Questions
1. City where I Live2. My Phone Number3. Co. Where I work
Brother GeorgePasscode in
Subjector Body
After a correct response, John’s also previously defined Passcode will be provided to George along with simple instructions on how to use it.
Then all he has to do is include this Passcode in the Subject line or in the message body and send the message again.
John Doe
John’s MailboxFIGTSPAMtm
Mai
l Ser
verInbox
SENDERS NOT IN THE APPROVED LIST
Approved Senders
Uncle AlbertSister Suzie Brother MichaelAuntie GinBrother George
Passcode
Spam Control System
Zerimxv21
List of Perssonal Questions
1. City where I Live2. My Phone Number3. Co. Where I work
Spammer
Most spammers make up the originator email address, so they will not receive back the instructions on how to access John's defined questions. They also use automatic servers to send the same message millions of times, so they will not be typically answering questions or reading instructions. Regardless of the above, assuming that they receive the instructions and access the page with John's questions, they will not know the correct answers.
John Doe
John’s MailboxFIGTSPAMtm
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ADDITIONAL FEATURES
Reports
Mail Rejected
Mail Statistics
Ans. Questions
Aliases
Spam Control System
Alias1
Alias 2
Contact Me Web Form
Email from
Subject
Message
John can also create temporal alias emails forwarded to his real email account, so he can use them while he is shopping or communicating with unknown persons or companies.
John has also access to several activity reports to help him track the non-approved senders and a personalized Internet Contact-me form.
Contact
InternetShopping
