BrainKing Knowledge Base

I have just spent a few minutes searching the word "brainking" on Google (which is my favorite kind of relaxation when I want to use my computer but don't want to do anything meaningful), and after browsing through first 10 or 20 pages of results, I have noticed that BrainKing is included in one (or maybe more) site called "internet gambling directory".

That makes me think what the purpose of it really is. Shortly said, BrainKing is not a gambling site and we don't plan to make it a gambling site, it is not possible to play for real money on BrainKing and as long as we own the site, it will not be possible at all. However, there are sites which offer to play games for real money, and I mean games supported on BrainKing as well - backgammon, for example. And since some BrainKing pages could contain advertisements that promote gambling sites of this kind (and poker sites or online casinos), it might be good to put a little enlightenment to it.

All gambling related links which can be found on BrainKing sites belong to the category of paid advertisement and all of them link to external pages which are not associated with BrainKing at all. It is not possible to play for real money on our site. There is only one case which could be somehow close to this issue - tournaments with entry fees. But the fees can be applied in Brains only and it is just Brains what can be won as a prize - and Brains cannot be exchaged to real money, only spent on BrainKing for a membership etc.

A positive consequence of our presence in an internet gambling directory is that people who look for gambling sites can get to BrainKing by a mistake and maybe they will find out that playing just for fun is a good way how to spend a free time anyway.

As I have posted 4 months ago, there are statistical data which say that more than 90% of all e-mails is a spam. And since the most of modern e-mail clients use sophisticated anti-spam filters, spammers must be kind of inventive to make up new ways to overcome them and deliver their trash to poor readers. Funny thing is that I have recently received a spam which has been pretending to come from BrainKing itself, having a "From:" header set to info@brainking.com, which is our "system" address to notify users about new account approval etc.

Furthermore, the spammers has probably found out that sending their ridiculous offers at attached images is not very effective anymore, so their new tactics against anti-spam filters is to use pdf files instead. It may work because many people know this Adobe format as a totally harmless one and don't hesitate to open it.

I would like to highlight that BrainKing never sends any e-mails with attachements, especially not with images, pdf files or executable programs. Moreover, BrainKing never sends HTML e-mails, just plain text ones. It means that if you ever receive something like I have just described and the sender pretends to be from @brainking.com domain, it is a spam. If we decide to change our e-mail policy, it will be officially announced first, as any other important issue.