The Four Pillars of Managing Email Reputation

Dustin Taylor — Wed, 15 May 2024 21:22:53 +0000

Introduction A sender’s domain and IP reputation strongly indicate email deliverability success. Maintaining a high reputation ensures optimal recipient inboxing. This blog outlines how Amazon SES protects its network reputation to help customers deliver high-quality email consistently. Understanding sender reputation nuances across diverse mailbox providers can be challenging, making issue identification and root cause analysis […]

Using Fake Student Accounts to Shill Brands

Bruce Schneier — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 11:10:27 +0000

It turns out that it’s surprisingly easy to create a fake Harvard student and get a harvard.edu email account. Scammers are using that prestigious domain name to shill brands:

Basically, it appears that anyone with $300 to spare can – or could, depending on whether Harvard successfully shuts down the practice — advertise nearly anything they wanted on Harvard.edu, in posts that borrow the university’s domain and prestige while making no mention of the fact that it in reality they constitute paid advertising….

A Harvard spokesperson said that the university is working to crack down on the fake students and other scammers that have gained access to its site. They also said that the scammers were creating the fake accounts by signing up for online classes and then using the email address that process provided to infiltrate the university’s various blogging platforms...

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The Four Pillars of Managing Email Reputation

Using Fake Student Accounts to Shill Brands