If you suddenly get regular spam emails, the content may be a request for registration and verification, it is very likely that you are the victim of the Bombing email attacks. The culprit may be trying to hide their true goals, so this is what you need to do to protect yourself.
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What is email bombing?
Email feeling The attacks in your mailbox (mail) by constantly sending a large amount of mail to your email. Sometimes these messages have a completely meaningless content, but often they will be the registration email and security emails. In the first case, the attacker uses script (command line) to search on the internet forums and homepage, then register an account with your email address. Each place will send you an email that requires your address to confirm. This process repeats on many unprotected websites that scripts can find.
The term “email bombing” can also mention the server congestion because there are too many emails sent to try to overwhelm and collapse the email server, but that’s not the purpose of this article. Instead of attacking the service (DOS) Going to the email server you are using, the attack by spam message is a much better direction to cover the real intentions of the attacker.
You can also understand the email bombing quite similar Spam sms good Spam mail You’ve ever encountered in life.
Why are you a victim?
Email bombing Usually the way to distract is used to hide your important email in the inbox. For example, the attacker may have gained access to one of your accounts on an online shopping site like Tiki and ordered expensive products on it. The email bombing causes your mailbox to fill unrelated emails, and hide the purchasing/delivery confirmation email so you can’t find them.
If you own a domain name, the attacker may be trying to rob that domain name. If the attacker gains access to your bank account on another financial service, they may be trying to hide the confirmation email for financial transactions.
By filling your inbox, Email Bombing will dispers your attention, hide every important email. When they stop emailing bombing, they may have gained goals and your damage is not small.
Email Bombing can also be used to gain control of your email address. If you have a beautiful address, then the attacker may attack this address. Wait until you give up, they will be able to occupy that address and use it for other purposes.
What to do when you are email bombing
If you find yourself a victim of an email bombing, the first thing to do is to check and lock your account. Log in to any shopping account and check the latest orders. If you see strange orders, please contact the customer support and cancel it.
On the Amazon, the order can be saved and hid them from the usual order list. A Reddit user Discovered an email from Amazon confirmed an order of 5 graphics cards worth more than $ 1,000 buried in the trash email.
You can check the stored amazon orders by accessing Your account And click “Archived Orders” in “Ordering and Shopping Preferences”. In Vietnam, you must not worry about this problem.
After you have checked all the websites that you have provided payment information, check your bank accounts and credit cards carefully and look for any abnormal activity. You should also contact your bank and notify them about the situation. They can lock your account and help you find abnormal activities. If you own any domain name, you should contact your domain name supplier and request a domain name lock so you cannot transfer that domain name.
If you find out the attacker has gained access to one of your websites, you should change your password on that site. And make sure you use a strong password for all your important online accounts. The password manager will help you create and remember the password. If you can manage passwords, you should set up two factors to every website. This will ensure that attackers cannot have access to accounts – even if they get a password.
Now you have secured your accounts, it’s time to handle your email. For most email providers, the first step is to contact the email provider. But contact with Google is very complicated. Google’s contact page does not seem to provide contact methods for most Google users. If you are a paid google one or registered person G Suiteyou can contact Google’s support directly. When I learned about their website, I only found a direct contact method when you were missing in Google Drive.
I am sure anyone in this support group can help you solve the problem. Or you can also create a filter to clean your inbox. Try to find some common characteristics in the emails you receive and put a few filters to transfer them to spam or trash.
If you are using Outlook.com email, you can find help on the web. Log in to your email, then click the question mark in the upper right corner.
Enter the content as “I’m Getting Email Bombed” and click “Get Help”. You will be provided with the option “Email us”then guide.
You will not be saved immediately, but still have the hope that the support department will contact you for help. In the meantime, you should find a few things in common to filter out what you are receiving.
If you are using another email provider, try to contact them directly and set the filter. In any case, do not delete your account or email address. Gaining control of your email address may be what the attacker really wants. Giving up your email address is helping them achieve that goal.
You can’t stop the attack, but you can wait for it
In the end, you could not do anything to prevent the attack yourself. If your email service provider cannot or not help, you will suffer this attack and hope it will stop soon. Your attacker will get what they want or realize that you have taken measures to prevent them, so they will turn to another goal easier.
