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Amazon seeks millions from bogus spammers
News The company is also working with the New York Attorney General's office to identify alleged spammers. Amazon.com said on Tuesday that it had filed 11 lawsuits against marketers that allegedly used its name when sending bogus email, charges that...
[August 27, 2003, 9:00]
Porn spammers sneak images into Outlook
Talkback Spammers can test their emails using Outlook 2003. All they have to fo is keep trying out new filter-defeating tactics using their own copy of Outlook 2003 until the email they send themselves gets through!
[June 22, 2004, 10:31]
Spammers hit by government fines
News The Korean government began a clampdown on spammers at the start of 2002. Six Web sites, including Internet portal Korea.com, have been fined for bombarding Internet users with spam emails, according to reports.
[July 22, 2002, 11:25]
Yahoo to fool spammers with dummies
News The Web portal said that as a way to protect their personal Yahoo Mail address from spammers, subscription email customers will be able to set up dummy email addresses for use when entering personal information at Web sites.
[October 21, 2003, 8:40]
Porn spammers sneak images into Outlook
Talkback I think our story makes an interesting and valid point about a new tactic used by spammers - and I don't think all embedded images are inherently safe: people lose their jobs because of porn on their hard drives.
[June 22, 2004, 12:24]
Feds go after Sars spammers
News Two federal agencies are targeting sites and spammers that promote Sars cures and prevention products, saying they must remove the misleading information or risk penalties. The trade commission has stepped up its crackdown on spammers offering...
[May 12, 2003, 9:12]
AOL vows to see spammers in court
News AOL UK is gearing up to take legal action against spammers who are based overseas but are sending their wares to its UK email users. According to anti-spam campaigners such as Spamhaus, around 200 spammers are responsible for the vast majority of...
[December 10, 2003, 15:35]
AOL thwarted in attempt to sue spammers
Talkback All they need to do is publish the names and addresses of the spammers. AOl doesn't need to get involved in lengthy and expensive litigation. Natural justice will take care of business after that.
[January 6, 2004, 9:26]
Anti-spammers seek proof of senders' identity
News Spammers typically cover their tracks by hacking into unprotected email servers, or open relays; by hijacking other email servers; and by falsifying names and email addresses in the email sender field.
[October 27, 2003, 8:15]
FTC finally realises that spammers lie
News Whether disguising who they are, providing misleading subject lines, or offering false deals that are too good to be true, spammers are more likely to mislead recipients than to tell the truth about their offers, the study found.
[April 30, 2003, 10:48]
United Nations calls for ISPs to police spammers
News The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the UN organisation responsible for global telecoms standards, recommended that ISPs be required to enforce codes of conduct regarding their customers, and block spammers' email access.
[March 9, 2006, 16:55]
Junk Mail and Spammers Meet Their Match in Outlook
White Papers The new Junk E-mail Filter can block the punches that annoying spammers try to deliver to the Inbox each day. Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 is serious about protecting the user's privacy - and the Inbox.
[November 24, 2006, 0:00]
US tops international spammers' list
News The top-ranked European spammers -- the Netherlands, Germany, France, the UK and Spain -- together accounted for 7.82 percent of all spam received. The United States is by far the leading originator of most of the spam received around the world...
[February 27, 2004, 16:15]
Spammers switch pills for porn
News Clearswift said healthcare email spammers also used the holiday season as a marketing tool for driving interest among consumers, using email subject lines such as "Lose Weight for the Holidays" to push diet pills.
[December 17, 2003, 8:30]
Spammers undeterred by Can-Spam Act
News Large Internet service providers have indeed used the law to file suits against spammers. Nearly a year after its passage, the federal Can-Spam law has done little to curb spam, according to a year-end report due on Monday.
[December 30, 2004, 9:30]
Spammers use free porn to bypass Hotmail protection
Talkback So start inputting incorrect responses to foil spammers. It would appear that the bot here would not be able to tell the difference between a correct entry for the CAPTCHA and an incorrect one. Until they begin to test for the correctness of the...
[May 7, 2004, 12:32]
Porn spammers ignore new labelling rule
News Spammers flooding the Internet with pornographic solicitations apparently are not abiding by a new federal rule that took effect last week. This is usually an attempt by spammers to make their messages look as though they are in compliance, when in...
[May 27, 2004, 11:30]
Spammers busted in Net fraud crackdown
News The FTC announcement was designed to warn spammers that a band of law enforcement agencies is watching them and looking for improprieties. Trumpeting its first major joint effort to crack down on illegal spam, the Federal Trade Commission said...
[April 3, 2002, 10:01]
Spammers seek their own Net backbone
News Though their plans are still under wraps, they're looking to build, from the ground up if need be, a service that will welcome spammers with open arms. Rines, founder of Quantum Communications of Stratham, N.H.and Wallace, founder of Cyber...
[October 9, 1997, 14:58]
UK law failing to nail spammers
News According to Richard Allan MP, Liberal Democrat member for Sheffield Hallam, the absence of any British prosecutions against spammers is a sign that UK ISPs have been doing a good job at refusing to host spammers on their networks.
[December 13, 2004, 17:10]
