It makes one wonder how convicted spammers are treated in prison. The most recent pair of spammers prosecuted saw witnesses from five states come to testify against them and co-spammers turned on them for (presumably) lighter sentences.
This Guy Will Ask Spammers To Stop…
…Spamming You In Exchange For Links!
The beauty just came into my blog’s spam filter this morning:
Name: Anikrichard | E-mail: anlikivanna.80@mail.ru | URI: *spamlink* | IP: 72.9.235.218 | Date: September 5, 2007
MyBlogLog Updates Features Due to Spammers
I feel bad for the guys at MyBlogLog. Ever since being acquired by Yahoo, they’ve not exactly had a comfy ride. Things escalated this weekend, with reports that spammers had found an exploit that allowed them to add themselves as "co-authors" on as many communities as they wished.
MyBlogLog – A Honey pot for Spammers
There seem to be mixed feelings about MyBlogLog, the social networking service that Yahoo bought in January, and the one whose widget you can see in my sidebar, as well as the sidebars on lots of other blogs (it’s the one with a row of pictures of different readers who have visited my blog recently).
Spammers Catch Wind of MyBlogLog
MyBlogLog is on so many popular blogs that it was just a matter of time before it started to be abused by spammers.
Spammers Spoof Lawyers In Italy
Unfortunately, this spoofing has nothing to do with commedia dell’arte; in Italy, attackers are sending spam messages forged to appear to come from lawyers and directing recipients to download malware. There’s no reason to think it couldn’t happen here or elsewhere.
How Spammers Get Your Email Address
Are you wondering how spammers get your email address? There are a few tricks they have for getting your address and once you see them you will see how important it is to protect your ‘real’ address and only give it to family, friends, and work contacts.
Self-policing PR: Should we out PR Spammers?
There are scads of approaches we can take to rehabilitate the image of the public relations profession.
Spammers Craftier In 05
America Online just released its annual Top Ten Spam List, a collection of email subject lines that, says the company, illustrates that spammers are getting more “sophisticated, devious, and dangerous.”
US Tops Among Dirty Dozen Spammers
The latest Sophos study shows spamming has become more distributed around the world, but over a quarter of junk mail still comes from the US.