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US Spammers Get Fines And Jail Time
News The cases were among a handful of claims EarthLink filed earlier this year against alleged spammers in California, Florida, Nevada and The company has won a number of other spam-related suits, including one against the so-called Alabama spammers in...
[November 18, 2005, 8:10]
US Leads The Dirty Dozen Spammers
News Sophos warned that many spammers are using hacked PCs with broadband connections to send out their spam. Spammers are motivated by one thing -- quick, easy money," added Cluley. There are plenty of spammers who have taken their money-making schemes...
[December 24, 2004, 10:45]
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 US accounted for more than half of all spam received, at 56.74 percent, Sophos said, with Canada...
[February 27, 2004, 16:15]
Porn Spammers To Face Jail In US
News Murray also criticised a portion of the bill that lets Internet service providers sue spammers while prohibiting class-action lawsuits. Goodlatte, however, predicted that civil penalties imposed on spammers -- instead of criminal sanctions -- will...
[July 9, 2003, 13:27]
US Leads The Dirty Dozen Spammers
Talkback Why is it that Gator seems to find itself within our systems which comes in unauthorized. Yet no where is there any effort made to devert them from contiuning their dirty ways of infiltrating our systems.
[December 24, 2004, 16:49]
First Spammers Charged Under New US Law
News The US Department of Justice has filed a criminal complaint against four Detroit-area men under the federal Can-Spam Act, in the first case sparked by the legislation. In a filing on Wednesday in the US District Court of Michigan, federal attorneys...
[April 30, 2004, 8:50]
Lycos Should Send Its Zombie Army Home
Leader We all hate spammers, and few of us would shed a tear should some unfortunate fate befall them. Just look at the harm that spammers do! Lycos defends its action by saying that what it is doing is not a denial-of-service attack, but an attack on the...
[December 1, 2004, 12:25]
On-the-run Spammer Caught And Canned
News One of the world's most prolific spammers has been arrested in the US as he stepped off a plane from the Dominican Republic, where he had been holed up running his illegal operation. According to Steve Linford from Spamhaus, who traces the...
[July 6, 2005, 16:55]
Europe Still Top Source Of Spam
News The security vendor called this a "significant shift" in spam trends as, historically, compromised US computers have been used to send spam mail, and many spammers have been US-based. Historically the majority of spammers were US-based, but now we...
[February 6, 2008, 12:16]
AOL Attacks The Spimmers
News A volley of lawsuits was launched against alleged spammers on Thursday by the four major US Internet service providers. AOL and our members continue to make spam-fighting a priority, and we continue to use the legal process on their behalf to help...
[October 28, 2004, 17:49]
Russia And China 'behind Current Spam Deluge'
News Steve Linford, director of The Spamhaus Project, warned on Tuesday that these gangs are supplying US-based spammers with details of compromised PCs that can be used to send out their unsolicited commercial messages, and creating viruses that will...
[June 8, 2004, 18:20]
Spam: Out Of The Frying Pan, Into The Fire
News UK laws may help spammers look legit Spammers conscript home PCs to do dirty work Thurs 26 June: Critics are urging the company to put its own house in order before attacking spammers Thurs 4 July:British politicians have been urged to lobby their...
[July 4, 2003, 11:01]
Microsoft Launches Anti-spam Court Action In UK
News However ISPs are telling us they see a lot of spam coming from Microsoft's own Hotmail servers, which are being abused by spammers. Intensifying its campaign against spammers, Microsoft announced on Tuesday that it had taken legal action in the...
[June 18, 2003, 8:54]
High Noon For The Spammers
News The US state of Texas has filed a civil lawsuit against two men it believes are among the planet's most prolific spammers, seeking millions of dollars in damages. Linford said it is particularly important that Texas be seen to act as it has...
[January 14, 2005, 15:50]
Microsoft Suing Israeli Spammer
News Microsoft said it had filed complaints about 10 alleged spammers with European public authorities: "We have sent nearly 70 cease and desist letters to as many spammers, and our experience tells us that in Europe spammers do stop once they are sued...
[February 28, 2005, 14:30]
Transatlantic Anti-spam Alliance Mooted
News However, Majoras refused to accept the level of US culpability, knocking-back the commonly held belief that the majority of spammers are based in the US. As a global community we can send a message to the spammers, telling them 'you can no longer...
[October 11, 2004, 12:55]
MSN, Yahoo! And AOL Join To Fight Spam
News Among the steps are plans to hinder spammers from creating multiple fraudulent email accounts in bulk and to determine the real identity of the senders. The problem has become so widespread that federal lawmakers are trying to craft policy to...
[April 28, 2003, 14:23]
China Joins Spam Talks
News Richard Cox from Spamhaus said countries such as Russia and China still act as "havens for spammers" and, although the US produces most spam, Asia is increasingly playing a part in the routing of bulk mail.
[February 23, 2005, 8:55]
Government Backs Anti-spam Mission To US
News Appearing at evidence sessions organised by the All Party Internet Group this summer, Steve Linford, director of The Spamhaus Project, warned that some of the proposed laws currently before the US Congress would allow spammers to come out of the...
[September 19, 2003, 14:50]
MCI Should Cut Off Spammers
Leader Last week anti-spam campaigner Spamhaus launched a series of allegations against Internet service provider MCI, claiming it effectively harbours spammers by leasing bandwidth to an ISP that hosts the Website that sells the Send-Safe spamming...
[February 14, 2005, 12:05]
