About one in six consumers have at some time acted on a spam message, affirming the economic incentive for spammers to keep churning out millions of obnoxious pitches per day, according to a new survey.
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Real Viagra sales power global spam flood
The truism that spam mostly consists of inducements to buy products such as Viagra turns out to spot on, a security company has found.
Read more »NY Attorney General Takes on Tagged Social Networking Site
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo plans to sue social networking site Tagged.com for allegedly stealing the identities of its members, raiding their e-mail contact lists and sending out spam in a bid to lure recipients to the site. Tagged's CEO denies the accusations. -
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Attorney General Andrew Cuomo threw a legal right-hook at social networking site Tagged.com Thursday, charging the site with spamming and stealing the identities
from 60 million of its users.
Cuomo served
the site a notice of intent, marking his plan to sue Tagged...
Software Writer Pleads Guilty To Spam Charges
A Virginia software developer has pleaded guilty for his role in creating and marketing software used to send bulk commercial emails that are in violation of the CAN-SPAM Act, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
Software Writer Pleads Guilty To Spam Charges
David S. Patton, 49, of Centreville, Virginia, pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting violations of the CAN-SPAM Act committed by spammer Alan Ralsky and Scott Bradley of West Bloomfield, Michigan and others.
Under the terms of his plea agreement, Patton is facing up to six years in prison, a fine of $3,000 while forfeiting $50,100 in proceeds from the sale of his software.
According to court documents, from January 2004 through September 2005, Patton, through his company Lightspeed Marketing, developed, marketed, sold and distributed customized software products that enabled users to send large volumes of spam email at high speeds and disguise the true origin of the emails from recipients in order to get around spam filters.
Read more »Phished Facebook accounts become spammer's tool
Cybercriminals who went after Facebook users with a number of phishing attacks last week have now turned around and begun sending spam messages from the Facebook accounts they cracked.
Read more »Phished Facebook accounts become spammer's tool (source: Computerworld)
Cybercriminals who went after Facebook users with a number of phishing attacks last week have now turned around and begun sending spam messages from the Facebook accounts they cracked. (source: Computerworld) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com
Read more »Image spam returns with a vengeance (source: Computerworld)
Spammers have turned back the clock and are recycling an old tactic by planting their messages in images, a security researcher warned today. (source: Computerworld) - RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com
Read more »Phished Facebook accounts become spammer's tool (source: Computerworld)
Cybercriminals who went after Facebook users with a number of phishing attacks last week have now turned around and begun sending spam messages from the Facebook accounts they cracked. (source: Computerworld) - RSS and News widget on Feedzilla.com
Read more »Image spam returns with a vengeance
Spammers have turned back the clock and are recycling a years-old tactic by planting their messages in images, a security researcher warned Wednesday.
Read more »Image Spam Surged 300% In April
Though the Conficker worm threat turned out to be more hype than reality in April, spammers and cybercrooks were still very active in exploiting public interests. Latching on to traditions as well as big news stories provided venue for peddling a morass of trash.
Image Spam Surged 300% In April
The big scare (overblown hype) in April was the swine flu, which spammers were quick to capitalize on by adjusting their campaigns accordingly. It's classic bait and switch, as it is in cases where email recipients were duped into opening emails about the earthquake that rocked Italy, or IRS tax season phishing scams.
Fake Easter e-cards containing links to scareware went out, and the Waledac botnet was used to promote everything from online gambling, fake products, and foot fetishes.
Overall, spam is on the rebound since the famous November takedown of McColo Corp., which resulted in a temporary but drastic reduction in spam. Other reports show spam reaching about 70 percent recovery as spammers regroup.
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