Most everyone out there has gotten their share of spam e-mails and phishing scams. The problem is getting worse. Most of these messages are just annoyances, we get them, we delete them, we move on until the next time. But some of them, are potentially dangerous. Up until last week one of my clients was getting upwards of 3000 spam messages per day. PER DAY! Why? Because Ya**o created something called a catch-all mailbox. In the beginning it sounded to them like a great idea, if someone mis-spells their business e-mail address, they will still get the messages, but, as soon as the domain is listed in the e-mail lists for spammers they started getting thousands of e-mails sent to whoever@thierdomain.com.

More later on how to address this problem, and what you can do to get yourself off these lists….for good.

Dr. Webbs has entered the building. I will use this to post tips and tricks that I have learned, and use in my daily web developer position and in my self employed business as a web designer.

I primarily use PHP and ASP.net along with standard HTML, CSS, and anything else I can find.

I use a little flash, a whole lot of MS SQL Sever and MySql.