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[December 30, 2007, 13:16]
Spammers Face Jail
News Jared Cosgrave and Mohammed Haque pleaded guilty last week in a US District Court in Southern Florida to charges of fraud and violation of the Can-Spam Act. The two were identified in an investigation last year by EarthLink's fraud and abuse team...
[October 4, 2006, 9:05]
Alleged 'Seattle Spammer' Arrested
News Soloway, owner of Newport Internet Marketing, was indicted by a federal grand jury on 23 May in a US District Court in Seattle on 10 counts of mail fraud, five counts of wire fraud, two counts of email fraud, five counts of aggravated identity...
[June 1, 2007, 15:49]
Congestion Charge For Spam?
News He said such plans in general would be difficult to engineer and confusing because not everyone using the Internet pays in dollars, and are potential magnets for fraud. Two IBM researchers are proposing a new method of fighting spam that would...
[March 27, 2003, 9:31]
Criminals Send Malware Levels Soaring
News The IT security landscape has changed over recent months, with credit card fraud gangs, virus writing gangs, spammers and malicious hackers becoming more closely entwined, added Cluley. One factor may be the anti-spam legislation that has been...
[July 4, 2005, 17:25]
Yahoo And Sendmail Ally Against Spam
News In a separate announcement, Sendmail said on Tuesday that it will back Microsoft's system for identifying the origin of email, which is an initiative called "caller ID for email" that aims to cut down on fraud.
[February 25, 2004, 7:45]
OFT Can't Cope With Internet Scams
News Mike Haley, head of the OFT Scambusters team, said on Wednesday that his team's expertise lay in dealing with "real world" trading scams, rather than online fraud. One of the most well-known scams is the 419 fraud, an advance money scam where...
[January 25, 2007, 11:32]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog So, what do you do about email fraud? Alas, the dastardly thieves have had the foresight to send out their spam of Satan after normal banking hours -- is there no end to their evil genius? Lloyd's anti-spam filters have spotted some of the tricks...
[December 12, 2003, 16:20]
Anti-spyware: Into The Front Lines
News This case is symptomatic of the larger problems of fraud and deception and unfair trade practices on the Internet. Schwartz has played the role of lead investigator for his organisation's complaint against Mail Wiper, a company that had previously...
[February 12, 2004, 14:40]
US Spam Scams Slammed
News Ninety percent of spam that tries to defraud Web users originates in the United States, an international anti-fraud campaign reported this week. Anti-spam campaigner Spamhaus believes that junk mail now accounts for 75 percent of all email.
[February 24, 2005, 14:50]
Harsh Sentences Loom For Spammers
News The commission retained in the final substantive draft a controversial proposal to compare spam offences to theft, fraud and property destruction for the purposes of sentencing. Critics of the sentencing commission's fraud analogy argue that not...
[April 15, 2004, 10:50]
Court Victory In The Fight Against Spam
Talkback There are already laws on the books for these types of crimes most often termed as fraud , and the courts don't need any additional laws to enforce them. The courts were 100% wrong here because what this man got was not SPAM, it was advertising.
[December 28, 2005, 19:26]
International Coalition Hits Back At Spam
News That way, ISPs and email providers could help prevent email fraud, one of the chief frustrations for anti-spam fighters. A coalition of top Internet service providers on Tuesday advocated a set of technical guidelines designed to stem the tide of...
[June 23, 2004, 8:50]
Feds Go After Sars Spammers
News See the Net Crime News Section for the latest on fraud, crime, child protection and related issues. Last week, it held a forum to discuss solutions to spam and fraudulent mail. The FTC said it's found seven types of Sars-related spam in the in-box...
[May 12, 2003, 9:12]
Spammer Looks To Cut Jail Time With Guilty Plea
News Lin is expected to plead guilty to charges including fraud in connection with electronic mail, as part of a deal with US prosecutors to reduce his sentence. A Detroit-area man is facing at least two years in jail on charges that he sent millions of...
[January 13, 2006, 9:45]
The Week In Review: The Kids Are All Wired
News Fatal shooting linked to Nigerian email fraud Our mail boxes at ZDNet UK are jammed with such missives daily, and our colleagues over at silicon.com recently baited one of the scammers (see story here), which led us to think of a solution: what if...
[February 21, 2003, 16:48]
Spam: An Overview Of Issues Concerning Commercial Electronic Mail
White Papers Also, some spam involves fraud, or includes adult-oriented material that offends recipients or that parents want to protect their children from seeing. Spam, also called unsolicited commercial email (UCE) or "junk email," aggravates many computer...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Australians Hit By Online Bank Fraud
News The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has revealed that some customers have been tricked into revealing their online banking client numbers and passwords after receiving a spam mail claiming to be from the bank.
[March 18, 2003, 10:46]
