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Top 10 Spam Stories of 2008

Well, it's a yearly tradition in the western hemisphere that at the end of the year, we compose a top 10 list of the 10 most . Since it is now 2009, I thought that I would create my own list of the top 10 spam stories of 2008.

Now, not all of these will be universally applicable to everyone, they are the top 10 stories as seen by me:

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1. Backscatter makes the news. Backscatter spam is a scourge on the internet, and it made big headlines this year, so much so that even the USA Today covered it. Even bigger coverage? I blogged about it in an 18-part series. Take that, USA Today!

2. Spammers get huge fines, sentenced to prison. Dubbed the original Spam King, Sanford Wallace finally had a big corporation come after him—Newscorp. In May of 2008, he was hit with a $230 million dollar fine for spamming MySpace. He should have held out a few more months and then asked the government for a bailout.

On a similar note, Seattle Spammer Robert Soloway was convicted on three charges and faces up to 27 years in prison. I considered going down to the court house and watching the sentencing; I never got around to it. Probably a good thing I couldn't engage in a little schadenfreude.

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