The following document was written after countless hours of research and experimentation, in the hope that you will not have to waste as much time in setting up DKIM on Postfix as we had to. The documents in internet on this subject are mostly old and deals with an old version of DKIM Milter.

What is DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM)?

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  IT security firm Sophos revealed Monday in its Security Threat 2010  that Facebook and Tweeter are not only for social networker, it is extensively used by cybercriminals. The survey also said that spamming on social networking sites went up to 70%. 57% of the users said that they have been spammed through social networking sites. 56% of the respondents admitted of receiving Malware through social networking sites. Full article (335 words) »

There is a serious scam involving IRS (Internal Revenue Service, USA) which can fool even the most web-savvy people. Please read below for details on how you can protect yourself from this email which appears to genuinely come from IRS, inquiring about your tax exemption status.

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We are about to release a new blog (WordPress) comment spam protection software. It has been extensively tested for over two months. We will deploy it first across our network of highly popular blogs. The new software named Comment Guard Lite was developed after gaining extensive experience with the leading Comment spam protection software - Comment Guard Pro. Comment Guard Lite provides super-fast (no database access required to identify spam) comment spam protection with zero false positives (no valid comment will be discarded as spam). Full article (1003 words) »

I got this interesting spam in my comments today:

Please, do not delete the given message. Money obtained from spam will go to the help hungry to children ugandf

What do I do?

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Have you *ever* received genuine Russian comments on English blogs?

I receive many many of Russian comments everyday. Previously I used to translate them because my blog is multi-lingual and Russian is one of the 32 languages this blog is available, thanks to automated. Down the road, I realized that I never got a single genuine Russian comment on my blog even though I received many genuine comments in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian etc.

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Only four days after escaping from a federal minimum-security prison in Florence, Colorado "Spam King" Eddie Davidson, 35, killed his wife, baby daughter and finally himself. Full article (172 words) »

MySpace was awarded $234 million in statutory damages, the largest ever anti-spam verdict made under CAN-SPAM and apparently under any law. This is also the first time damages have been awarded under the California Anti Phishing Act.

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I received a non-typical email spam, a well written (spams are usually filled with bad spelling mistakes and grammatical errors, especially those from Dakar, Senegal for example) email from Maria Wyatt (most likely forged) claiming to be Nadezhda from Saint-Petersburg in Russia. Couple of photos were also included.

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Would you approve a (blog) comment where the commenter's name is "Best Way To Loose Weight"? Any sane blogger would never approve such comments even if it is relevant to context. Do you know why?

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