How spammers hijack sites

NEW DELHI: One of the major trends throughout 2008 is spammers' increased use of cloaking techniques to hide their poor reputation behind someone else's good reputation. This means that instead of sending email from a known spam IP address or -- more commonly -- from an infected bot server, spammers are finding new ways to send messages using valid or known mail servers, mainly webmail accounts, which have a reputation as a legitimate email source. There are several methods spammers use to hijack good reputation, in order to make use of it to deliver their unwanted mail.

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