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Entries from July 2008

Factoid: Spam with Mayo (Post-Bulletin)

July 16th, 2008 · No Comments · blockspam

linic’s Information Technology team purges 38 million spam e-mail messages each day.
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Can’t get enough of SPAM? (Public Opinion)

July 16th, 2008 · No Comments · blockspam

I’m pleased to have been asked to judge Public Opinion’s SPAM recipe contest. As I got ready for the event, I thought it would be appropriate to do some research on SPAM, America’s most popular canned luncheon meat.

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Spam surged in second quarter, US remains biggest culprit (iTNews)

July 16th, 2008 · No Comments · blockspam

Spam significantly increased in the second quarter of 2008, security vendor Sophos reported today.
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Man Gets 30 Months for Sending Spam to AOL Users (GigaLaw.com)

July 16th, 2008 · No Comments · blockspam

A Brooklyn man was sentenced to 30 months in prison for sending spam e-mails to more than 1.2 million subscribers of America Online in a scheme that foiled the Internet company’s spam-filtering system.
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Soloway case reveals big business behind spam (IT World)

July 16th, 2008 · No Comments · blockspam

Selling the tools used by spammers is easy money, at least until you get caught. Just ask Adam Sweaney, a man charged with computer fraud who took the stand at the sentencing hearing in Seattle for Robert Soloway, the so-called…

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Soloway Case Reveals Big Business Behind Spam (PC World via Yahoo! News)

July 16th, 2008 · No Comments · blockspam

Testimony during the sentencing hearing for the so-called spam king offered an inside look at the big business of spam.
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Weight-loss Supplement Dealer Settles Spam Charges (PC World via Yahoo! News)

July 16th, 2008 · No Comments · blockspam

Marketers of ‘bogus’ weight-loss supplements settle spam charges brought by the U.S. FTC.
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Experts report ‘disturbing rise’ in spam (VNU Net via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)

July 16th, 2008 · No Comments · blockspam

Experts have reported a “disturbing rise” in the level of spam between April and June 2008 as cyber-criminals increasingly exploit Facebook and mobile phones to spread junk mail.
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Suffolk woman receives death threat as e-mail spam (Newsday)

July 16th, 2008 · No Comments · blockspam

Cathy Wendt opened up her e-mail and saw the usual spam: super foods, cheap Viagra, death threats.
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Judge Puts off ’spam King’ Sentencing (PC World via Yahoo! News)

July 16th, 2008 · No Comments · blockspam

A judge in Seattle did not hand down a sentence for Robert Soloway, known as the spam king, on Monday.
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