Topic: SPAM - on May 19, 2004 at 11:45:00 PM CEST
Regierungsserver durch Spam überlastet
Laut einer Tagesschau-Meldung werden die Server der Bundesregierung derzeit durch Unmengen von Werbe-E-Mails erheblich gestört. Seit Wochenanfang habe die Belastung durch solche Mails drastisch zugenommen, erklärte das Bundesinnenministerium.
Die ca. 510.000 E-Mails, die die Server erreichten, sorgten für ein verzögertes Eintreffen wichtiger E-Mails von mehreren Tagen.
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Topic: SPAM - on May 12, 2004 at 6:22:00 PM CEST
Spam King gets restraining order against SpamCop
A bulk mailing company headed by notorious spammer Scott Richter has won a restraining order against anti-spam reporting service SpamCop.
Following an order by a Northern California District Court judge on Monday SpamCop is obliged to temporarily stop reporting complaints about Richter's company, OptinRealBig.com, to third-party ISPs. The order will apply until 20 May, when the two companies are scheduled to appear in court. SpamCop is fighting the main action but it failed to oppose the temporary restraining order.
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Topic: SPAM - on February 3, 2004 at 10:07:00 PM CET
How Spammers Are Targeting Mobile Phones in Asia
If you thought your spam problems couldn't get any worse, check your mobile phone.
Cellphones are becoming the latest target of electronic junk mail, with a growing number of marketers using text messages to target subscribers in Asia.
Mobile phone spam has yet to approach anything like the volume of the e-mail variety, but the problem is growing in a region where the average user sends as many as 10 SMS (short message service) messages a day.
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Topic: SPAM - on January 25, 2004 at 1:11:00 PM CET
Gates forecasts victory over spam
Spam will be a thing of the past in two years' time, Microsoft boss Bill Gates has promised.
Spammers - senders of bulk e-mail that mostly offers dubious products or pornography - were innovative, he said.
However, a three-pronged strategy would soon stamp out the problem, he said in remarks at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos.
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Topic: SPAM - on January 15, 2004 at 11:49:00 PM CET
An increasing number of news websites are now engaged in the latest form of annoying commercial messages: screen spam.
You're on a news website reading an article when, suddenly, an invisible hand starts scratching words in red ink across your screen. What's this? You've just been targeted with screen spam, the latest and most aggressive advertising tactic yet deployed by unscrupulous Internet marketers, designed to do nothing other than interrupt your visit and cajole you into buying something.
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Topic: SPAM - on January 15, 2004 at 1:39:00 PM CET
Worsening spam epidemic chokes the net
The scourge of junk email reached new proportions at the end of 2003 with nearly two out of every three messages sent worldwide being an unwanted advertisement.
The latest statistics from UK-based email filtering company MessageLabs indicate that 62.7 per cent of all global emails sent during December were spam. The company scanned over 463 million messages. In November the figure was 55.1 percent and in October 50.5 percent. In some countries, for example Australia, more than two thirds of all December messages were junk.
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Topic: SPAM - on January 15, 2004 at 1:37:00 PM CET
Sp@m: the myst.eries xp1ained!!!
Stob (Previously: Verity Stob has travelled deep into Essex to meet Sam ‘The Spam’ Osborne, England’s first spamillionaire.)
Inside the house, I expected a typical wealthy Essex businessman’s abode: crossed sawn-offs over a granite mantel, 300 inch widescreen TVs in every tennis court, more fake marble than you could shake a building society branch at.
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Topic: SPAM - on January 11, 2004 at 2:32:00 AM CET
2004 spam conference
Interested in solving the spam problem? Come join us at the 2004 spam conference in sunny Cambridge, Massachusetts. Speakers at this intensive, one-day conference include many of the leading experts on spam. Whatever the answer is, odds are it's here somewhere.
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Topic: SPAM - on January 10, 2004 at 2:45:00 PM CET
CAN-SPAM means we can spam
A miniscule proportion of unsolicited commercial email complies with US Federal anti-spam laws introduced this month, according to a survey published yesterday.
Email security firm MX Logic found that of a random sample of over 1,000 unsolicited commercial emails received during the first week this year only THREE of the messages complied with the CAN-SPAM Act. The CAN-SPAM (Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing) Act went into effect on January 1.
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Topic: SPAM - on January 9, 2004 at 2:13:00 AM CET
Reason 883 That the World is Ending -- Starprose.com
PHP-Nuke Built In Referer Spamming? ¬> wyome.com
StarProse Launches New Traffic Exchange Program ¬> For PHP-Nuke!
StarProse Referrer Advertising System 2004 ¬> wyome.com
What is Referer Spam ¬> spywareinfo.com
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Topic: SPAM - on January 8, 2004 at 5:28:00 PM CET
SPAM for President!
Going through the logs generated by Webalizer I discovered that I'd had four hits from a the URL www.sharpton2004.org. Interesting, considering that this is the Al Sharpton For President site. I seriously doubt that Al has linked to my site from his. So he has a bot dumping reference SPAM in logs. Nice! You're not getting my vote, man! If I could've voted, that is.
¬> When the Spam Hits the Blogs
¬> a discussion about using the MT Blacklist to block referral spam.
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Topic: SPAM - on November 10, 2003 at 4:10:43 PM CET
Put your spam to music
Musician culls unwanted e-mail for song titles Compilation CD made, distributed via the Internet. If you've ever been so foolhardy as to leave your e-mail inbox unattended for a day, there is an experience you've no doubt had: foraging through the electronic haystack of unsolicited advertising e-mail to find the occasional needle — a personal message from an actual human being you know.
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