With the thousand and thousand messages circulating universally, we are likely to fall for spam or scam. These types of messages usually look promising in the content but definitely suspect in the structure. They intend to deceive you with special offers or attractive refunds, but the only aim is to get your personal information or banking details so as to operate on your behalf, purchase, get loans or just take your money from your bank account.
Just as developers are constantly researching and optimizing spam detection applications to protect users, spammers and scammers are toiling to generate new ways of fraud using messages. The attentive attitude of the common user is the first and topmost filter; a generous prize, the confirmation of an unsolicited code, an unknown domain, a notification from a bank you do not operate with, an imitated acknowledgement for delivery of a package, a warning of an account in danger, request for help to victims through an international transference organization, and the list continues endlessly.
There are many alerts that you must consider as a common user not to be tricked by spam. The consequences can be seriously damaging, and always intruding. Filters are more and more sophisticated, as the software APIs integrate AI, ML and NLP which are constantly being trained with new models, blacklists and events. The primary filter is the human eye that must permanently be attentive to dangerous threats. The other protection is that of a Spam Detection API that will safeguard you technologically.
Zyla Labs has developed spam detection platforms to protect clients (Anti Spam Filter API, Block Spammers API, Spam Checker API, Spam Prevention API) by scanning incoming and outgoing messages with an algorithm that scores the text on a scale and assigns a number, which will consider the text spam if it trespasses a certain value, and sends it to junk box (incoming message) or does not send it (outgoing).
Despite all the shields, you may have given sensitive information, e.g. card information, in which case you must invalidate the card with your bank, or banking data, again you must contact your bank at once to activate the security strategy. However, you must report the fraud or the attempt to safeguard yourself and other customers. It is also safe to update passwords from time to time, to prevent hacking. It is recommended to have one password per account, and not a unique password for all your accounts. And eventually block suspect forwarders` numbers and email addresses so that you prevent any further attempt.
If you have been a victim of fraud, you must file the complaint with the corresponding authority and that will activate a procedure to track down IP, individual, delinquent. You must also put an API to the test, as Spam Detection API will filter spam texts, unwanted calls and weird messages. Consider that scammers sent illegitimate messages to make you fall and get your details, which will allow them to access your accounts to operate from them, or sell this information to organized gangs.
Scammers usually ask you to click on links with a promise or a threat…ignore them. Or else they send fake messages requesting data about your accounts or a banking operation…disregard them. They may install damaging viruses on your devices with the intention to steal information. Follow your banking institutions recommendations: the bank will never ask you a password or a token; this type of requests never come from the bank. If an apparently real company is asking for your personal data, contact the organization by phone and make sure it is for real.
Ultimately, and insistently, rely on automated filters by Spam Detection API that will protect your connection, your devices, your personal data, your family and your customers.