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The Inquirer writes:
THE FCC has told wireless spammers that they must ask permission from mobile phone companies before they spam their customers into oblivion.
According to the Washington Post, the Watchdog barked out its warning to spammers who are flooding mobile networks in the US.
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vnunet.com writes:
The UK has put spam and internet scams high on the agenda after taking over the presidency of the International Consumer Protection and Enforcement Network.
Set up in 1992, the group consists of government and law enforcement agencies and aims to promote the uptake of consumer laws across borders, including a co-ordinated annual worldwide internet sweep for rogue websites.
The UK has put spam and internet scams high on the agenda after taking over the presidency of the International Consumer Protection and Enforcement Network.
Set up in 1992, the group consists of government and law enforcement agencies and aims to promote the uptake of consumer laws across borders, including a co-ordinated annual worldwide internet sweep for rogue websites.
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Information Week writes:
Compliance with the Can Spam Act has fallen to a new low, according to recent data collected by MX Logic. In July, compliance fell for the first time to less than 1%--dropping to a measly 0.54% of all unsolicited commercial mail the company sampled during the month.
MX Logic has been tracking compliance with Can Spam since the federal law went into effect in January. Through April, MX Logic's numbers remained stable, with about 3% of spam messages complying with the law's requirements, which range from verifiable return addresses to measures consumers and businesses can use to opt out of mailing lists. In May and June, however, the number slipped to 1%.
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PC World writes:
America Online has snapped up Web-based e-mail company Mailblocks in what company representatives call an effort to bolster its own e-mail services with greater antispam protection, mail management, and interface improvements.
AOL representatives did not specify the terms of the deal, but say the companpy bought privately-held Mailblocks to get its challenge/response technology for fighting spam and authenticating legitimate e-mail senders.
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Daily Texan Online writes:
Users of University e-mail servers should immediately notice a substantial decline in the amount of unsolicited e-mails they receive, Information Technology Services administrators announced Monday.
ITS implemented a new spam e-mail filter Monday on its main servers that will delete the vast majority of such messages, said Margaret Knox, director of collaboration and academic resources for ITS
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IT News writes:
A US federal court last week shut down a big-time Florida spammer and froze his assets, using the CAN SPAM Act to put a stop to his mass mailings.
Creaghan A. Harry is "responsible for what likely amounts to millions of illegal spam messages," said the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in a statement.
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Seattle Times writes:
In its campaign to hit spammers where they feel it in their pocketbooks Microsoft has filed 60 lawsuits over the past two years, using state and federal statutes against bulk e-mailers operating from distant points around the country.
So investigators were surprised last year when the path of one case involving spam linked to a pornographic British site led back to private mailboxes in Kirkland, practically under the shadow of Microsoft's Redmond campus.
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InSourced writes:
Spammers are actively seeking out and hijacking home PCs to act as remotely controlled relays, or zombies, that pass on their unwanted messages.
Written with the aim of converting home PCs to the spammers cause, viruses such as MSBlaster, Agobot, MyDoom and Sobig have succeeded in huge numbers. Law enforcement agencies now report that zombie nets can now be hired by the hour to pass on spam or other unwanted messages.
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The Register writes:
Pfizer, the maker of Viagra, has declared war on spammers and online pharmacies, illegally peddling pills under the Viagra brand. The company says it will pursue the offending persons and organisations in court. It is taking the action after its market research revealed that a quarter of men think Pfizer is the source of spam emails advertising the drug.
The company is suing five websites for trademark infringement and is seeking to seize the domain names of other sites selling 'generic' Viagra pills. It says there is no such things as a generic version of its product, because the no other company is licensed to sell sildenafil citrate, the chemical name for Viagra.
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Denver Post writes:
New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer on Monday quietly settled his lawsuit against Westminster e-mail advertiser Scott Richter for $50,000 - after originally seeking $20 million.
Predictably, the settlement came under fire from one anti- spam group, which considered it too light a penalty. Richter remains the target of a lawsuit by software giant Microsoft Corp.
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eBCVG writes:
Recent analyst estimates indicate that over 60 percent of the world’s email is unsolicited email, or spam. Spam is no longer just a simple annoyance. Spam has now become a significant security issue and a massive drain on financial resources. In fact, this deluge of spam costs corporations an estimated $20 billion each year in lost productivity.
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Net Security.org writes:
The numbers don't lie: Can Spam is a bust. Compliance with Can Spam has fallen to a new low, according to recent data collected by MX Logic.
In July, compliance fell for the first time under one percent to a measly 0.54 percent of all unsolicited commercial mail the company sampled during the month.
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International Herald Tribune writes:
When is the best time not to send an e-mail message? Return Path, an e-mail forwarding service, has analyzed the results of more than 16,000 of its clients' e-mail campaigns - consisting of mailings that customers actually wanted to receive, like sales notices - to see how many of the messages had been stopped by special software called spam blockers or been diverted by the software programs into their recipients' spam folders.
eBCVG writes:
Korea is a hotbed of spam email, a company that tracks the online plague said.
U.S.-based The Spamhaus Project, which also works with law enforcement agencies to pursue spammers, ranked Korea third in its 10 worst spamming countries as of July, after the United States and China.
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WebDevIQ writes:
Tumbleweed Communications and the Anti Phishing Working Group this week released the Phishing Attack Trends Report for June 2004, an analysis of phishing scam attacks submitted to The Anti Phishing Working Group. Analysis of over 1,400 attacks reported in June shows that 92% of all attacks use forged 'from' addresses. The results, says the Group, continue to underscore the utility of e-mail sender authentication technologies as a critical step toward reducing the effectiveness of phishing campaigns by preventing fraudulent e-mails from reaching in-boxes.
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Slashdot writes:
If you think that Spam in your e-mail inbox is bad, wait until VoIP gets huge! According to a News.CNet.com story, your voice mail box on your Net Phones may be cluttered with ads for Viagra. '"The fear with VoIP spam is you will have an Internet address for your phone number, which means you can use the same tools you use for e-mail to generate traffic," said Tom Kershaw, a vice president at security specialist VeriSign. "That raises automation to scary degrees."
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NBC13 writes:
Offers for cheap Viagra and incredible mortgage rates keep flooding our e-mail inboxes. In a survey, e-mail users told Consumer Reports the spam problem is only getting worse, despite a new federal crackdown. Seven out of 10 people in the survey said that more than half their e-mail is spam.
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BBC News writes:
The majority of e-mail messages being sent to school children in London are spam. The first week of a project to filter the e-mails travelling across the London Grid for Learning has revealed that 75% of the messages are junk. The most popular subjects for the spam were the drugs Viagra and Valium. Much of the remaining mail was pornographic.
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eBCVG writes:
Another in a seemingly endless string of variants to the computer virus known as Bagle was detected by researchers on Monday, but this one caused a bigger headache than most.
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KVOA writes:
Those offers for cheap Viagra and incredible mortgage rates keep flooding our e-mail inboxes.In a survey, e-mail users told Consumer Reports the spam problem is only getting worse, despite a new federal crackdown. Seven out of ten say that more than half their e-mail is spam. A new law took effect at the beginning of the year that's supposed to reduce spam, but about half the respondents say they're getting more junk messages this year -- not less.
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Theinquirer.net writes:
It's very depressing how almost every conversation about the Internet devolves into a discussion of how to combat spam.
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Canoe.ca writes:
Cellphone spam is the latest electronic way to target consumers. Cellphone spam refers to junk mail sent to mobile users via text messages. Text messaging is the cellphone technology that allows users to send and receive written messages through their phones.
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Dmeurope.com writes:
Levels of pornographic e-mails have shot up by almost 350 per cent since June, and in what appears to be an attempt to match supply with demand, healthcare spam (most of which was Viagra) has also risen significantly.
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News24.com writes:
The US government has made a series of arrests against major purveyors of e-mail spam, according to the Direct Marketing Association (DMA), which partly funded the investigation code-named "Slam Spam".
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D-silence.com writes:
A recent study done by the Federal Trade Commission, pulling together numbers from many different sources, revealed about 77% of all email recipients spend approximately 10 minutes per day dealing with spam in their inbox. If an individual earns $25 per hour, these 10 minutes equate to $4.16 each and every workday, totaling upwards of $83 monthly for one employee.
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