Free E-Mail Provider, SpivO Mail, Claims Victory Over Fraudulent Users

PRLog (Press Release) – Jan 23, 2008 – In its first month online, SpivO Mail, the free email service on the SpivO.com network, encountered a minor glitch. Over the last month, SpivO’s fraudulent users have been kept at bay thanks to SpivO’s obsessive account behavior monitoring and their system for detecting fraudulent emails. More prevalent than spam, fraud emails are considered a greater threat on the network because they are attempts to defraud people out of money.

The most common scam is the promising of a large sum of money do to a foreign diplomats death, an offshore lottery, or other difficult to trace scenario. While most online users are aware that such sums of money will not be offered to them by email, the con artist still defraud millions of Americans out of thousands of dollars because of this scam.

SpivO was prepared to deal with such users by implementing a security scan that runs all day on the server seeking mailing behavior similar to the scammers and spammers. The system finds users with an accuracy rate of 99.8%. Upon detection, the user’s IP address is banned and their account is deleted. SpivO Mail now goes a step further by emailing all of the scam recipients to let them know about the scam and reveals the IP address of the user to include in their IP blocking compatible spam filter. This process often times takes place just ten minutes after the first scam email is sent. Information that SpivO Mail now proudly displays on their home page.

Over the weekend, SpivO Mail encountered another type of unwanted user which they call a leach. Leaches generally register multiple accounts to store [what is often] hacked movies and software, a practice SpivO Mail has a zero tolerance for. The excessive data transfer from non compliant users slows down the SpivO Mail service for those users whom use the 1GB email account for business and personal use.

Vice President, Jason Bland, of SpivO’s managing company, Adviatech Corp., was actively involved with the clean up effort over the weekend. “What is most important to us is that we are providing a simple, efficient, email service for all of our compliant accounts. When we confirm a red flag, I want that user banned, deleted, and our database wiped clean of their existence. They don’t further our cause at all and are simply not welcome to use our service.”

SpivO Mails fraud detection system allows them to scan behavior without compromising the privacy of their compliant users. While SpivO Mail expects this to be a continuing battle, Jack Thomas of SpivO explains, “This system of ours is extremely efficient. And when someone wants to spend hours emailing themselves one to five gigabytes of information, they are simply wasting their time. We delete these accounts immediately upon confirming their activity. Honestly, it costs us the same amount of money to fight twenty fraudulent users a day as it does to fight a thousand negative accounts each day so while the problem might grow as our popularity increases, we are ready.”

To learn more, visit http://www.spivomail.com.