Microsoft: To spam or not to spam
To spam or not to spam, it's all in the presentation. See if you can spot if this is a genuine email from Microsoft, or a semi-elaborate spam mesage. by Zack Whittaker
ZDNet,
Thu Nov 26 23:35:22 PST 2009
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Google Explains Importance Of Spam Free Web Sites
Google has written two spam related posts over the Thanksgiving period on the Google Webmaster Central Blog. The first was named hard facts about comment spam and the second was named gener...
Search Engine Land,
Fri Nov 27 06:44:03 PST 2009
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Smut-ladened spam disguises WoW Trojan campaign
Pwned and porned A malicious spam campaign that attempts to harvest online game passwords under the guise of messages containing smutty photos is doing the rounds.
The Register,
Fri Nov 27 07:19:09 PST 2009
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New spam attack targets Social Security numbers
A team of anti-spam warriors at the University of Alabama at Birmingham has discovered a new weapon in the online bad guys' arsenal.
The Tampa Tribune,
Thu Nov 26 21:00:00 PST 2009
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Google: Comment Spam Can Hurt Your Site's Ranking
Google wrote a blog post named Hard facts about comment spam . I'll sum it up for you quickly. If you do not protect your site against comment spam, Google will trust your site less and it ...
Search Engine Roundtable,
Fri Nov 27 06:02:24 PST 2009
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Spam mastermind gets four years in slammer
Alan Ralsky, the self-styled Godfather of Spam has been sentenced to more than four years in jail for a scheme that used spam to manipulate stock prices in order to make a profit.
ITBusiness.ca,
Fri Nov 27 03:10:30 PST 2009
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Spam King Gets More Than Four Years Behind Bars
Spam king Alan Ralsky has been sentenced to more than four years in prison for fraud and violating the CAN-SPAM Act. The Department of Justice said Ralsky's spam was difficult to trace, and...
Enterprise Security Today,
Fri Nov 27 00:04:30 PST 2009
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Four Years Not Enough for "Godfather of Spam"
Is four years and a $250,000 fine really the best punishment for the self-proclaimed "Godfather of Spam?" Put another way: Do we take the criminal aspects of spam seriously enough?
PC World via Yahoo! News,
Wed Nov 25 09:21:00 PST 2009
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'Godfather of Spam' Ralsky Gets 51 Months in Prison
Four men, including a 64-year-old Michigan resident known as the "Godfather of Spam," were sentenced to several years in prison Tuesday for conspiring to commit wire fraud, mail fraud, and ...
PC Magazine via Yahoo! News,
Wed Nov 25 03:57:08 PST 2009
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Spam King Gets More Than Four Years Behind Bars
One of the world's most notorious spammers has reached the end of the road -- or at least a rest stop -- that could last for the next 51 months. Alan Ralsky, known as the spam king, was sen...
NewsFactor via Yahoo! News,
Wed Nov 25 14:08:11 PST 2009
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'Godfather of Spam' sentenced to four years
Alan Ralsky and many of his gang of spammers have been given prison sentences in the United States for a pump-and-dump spam operation.
ZDNet Asia,
Thu Nov 26 01:15:59 PST 2009
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The Sorry De-Evolution of Spam
I got my first piece of spam e-mail in 1989 after some jerkhammer decided to try and get random University of California at Santa Cruz students involved in his sleazy multilevel marketing s...
MalaysiaNews.net,
Wed Nov 25 22:41:43 PST 2009
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S.Korea halves ceiling on text messages to fight spam
South Korean authorities on Wednesday halved the daily limit on text messages sent out by mobile phones as part of a campaign against spam, officials said.
AFP via Yahoo! News,
Tue Nov 24 22:45:14 PST 2009
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Four Years Not Enough for "Godfather of Spam"
Spam costs every American--every one of us--over $13-a-year each, $42 billion in all, and that's just what business pays. And that doesn't include the criminals' take.
PC World,
Wed Nov 25 11:04:42 PST 2009
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Spam e-mails include virus :Messages look like they're from the Social Security Ad...
BIRMINGHAM, ALA.
South Bend Tribune,
Fri Nov 27 04:13:44 PST 2009
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Four years not enough for 'Godfather of Spam'
Is four years and a $250,000 fine really the best punishment for the self-proclaimed "Godfather of Spam?" David Coursey thinks not.
Macworld,
Wed Nov 25 12:54:42 PST 2009
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'Godfather of Spam' going to prison
A man who claims to be the "Godfather of Spam" has been sentenced to 51 months in prison by a federal judge in Detroit for his lead role in an e-mail stock scam scheme, according to court d...
CNN Money,
Tue Nov 24 14:04:31 PST 2009
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'Godfather of Spam' sentenced to 4 years in prison
Alan M. Ralsky, the self-proclaimed "Godfather of Spam" who pleaded guilty to fraud-related charges in June, was sentenced Tuesday to 51 months in prison, the Department of Justice said.
seattlepi.com,
Wed Nov 25 17:27:25 PST 2009
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'Godfather of Spam' jailed for four years
Alan Ralsky and three others heading to prison One of the most notorious spammers was sentenced to more than four years in jail on Monday for a scheme that used spam to manipulate stock pri...
TechWorld,
Wed Nov 25 03:30:52 PST 2009
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