New Spams and Virus Threats — and the Blogger Spam Robot!
Happily I have now been rescued from the Blogger Spam Robot so that I can publish this set of warnings ... t know. Another weird phenomenon is the recent practice of stealing identifies and email addresses for spam ... . When I was offered spam blocking protection, I tried it in one instance, but discovered that it missed about 80 [more...]
Date: 2007-08-02 12:18:08
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Defensio Promises Competition for Spam Killing Akismet
Spam is the scourge of the internet. Spawn of Satan. Evil incarnate. It’s bad stuff. They say something on the order of 90% of all email sent is in fact spam. Blech! Spam Defined ... bulk messages. While the most widely recognized form of spam is e-mail spam, the term is applied [more...]
Date: 2007-11-08 17:17:41
Blog: SuccessCREEations by C...
Anti-Spam Commentary
Appearances can be deceiving... With so many anti-Spam service companies out there, why do we continue to be plagued by the problem of Spam? ... and email services. Eliminating Spam would actually put these companies out of business! But, I digress ... out unsolicited email. They then provide these lists to ISP's, allowing them to filter incoming [more...]
Date: 2007-11-04 15:08:23
Blog: Lead Generation for Wor...
Anti-Spam Commentary
Appearances can be deceiving... With so many anti-Spam service companies out there, why do we continue to be plagued by the problem of Spam? ... and email services. Eliminating Spam would actually put these companies out of business! But, I digress ... out unsolicited email. They then provide these lists to ISP's, allowing them to filter incoming [more...]
Date: 2007-11-04 15:08:20
Blog: Leads Generating...
Anti-Spam Commentary
Appearances can be deceiving... With so many anti-Spam service companies out there, why do we continue to be plagued by the problem of Spam? ... and email services. Eliminating Spam would actually put these companies out of business! But, I digress ... out unsolicited email. They then provide these lists to ISP's, allowing them to filter incoming [more...]
Date: 2007-11-04 15:08:17
Blog: Teacher's Training Aids...
FAQ: What Do Ron Paul's Internet Fans Have In Common With Unsolicited Emailers Offering You Sixty (60) Million In Unclaimed Nigerian Gold?
—Ace Apparently many of his most passionate fans headquarter their spamming operations in the internet fraud capital of the world. AB Spam Team Spots First Presidential Campaign Spam Anti-spam researchers at the University ... from the same source. According to the CAN-SPAM Act, the primary law under which unwanted email [more...]
Date: 2007-10-30 18:38:31
Blog: Ace of Spades HQ...
Cold calling by email: how not to do it
With people mentally attuned to deleting spam from their inbox, it's important to ensure that any personal emails don't look like spam ... . Technically, spam is unsolicited email sent in bulk. But recipients don't think like that. Spam is what they call unwanted email. All of which leads to much wringing of hands when preparing to cold call [more...]
Date: 2007-06-19 08:08:33
Blog: Email marketing blog: N...
GMail Gloats About its Superior Spam Protection
I typically recieve between 11,000 and 17,000 pieces of spam per month. While I am what you might call an email power user, it still may seem high ... . gmail spam screenshot Karen of the GMail anti-spam team did a quick state-of-the-service post ... . I’ve owned several of the email addresses that point to my GMail account since the late 90s [more...]
Date: 2007-10-29 22:18:01
Blog: Mashable! - The Social ...
A Spammer Never Sleeps
On average I delete close to 300+ spam comments a day on this blog, which are caught by akismet of course ... with spammers, they also get into my email. It’s a good thing email spam filters were created otherwise I could just kiss my day’s productivity goodbye. Image Spam to PDF Spam One thing that would [more...]
Date: 2007-07-18 19:33:02
Blog: Everybody Go To | Takin...
Spam: now an art form in its own right
Spam: now an art form in its own right spam-paintings.jpg Has anyone else noticed that email spam's been getting a lot more creative recently? Artist Linzie Hunter has: she's created a series of paintings using spam subject lines as her inspiration. Everything is represented here, from the diet pills and replica watches [more...]
Date: 2007-11-09 10:20:13
Blog: Shiny Shiny...
What does obesity and pen_l_ enhancement have in common?
That got your attention. The answer will be revealed shortly. :-) Spam. It’s literally taken over inboxes and gets through the best filters. Worldwide, three out of every four emails is now spam. Do you know when the very first spam email was sent? In 1978. Who knew? A fascinating new study on spam was just published by Canadian [more...]
Date: 2007-09-22 15:11:02
Blog: Junkfood Science...
Five Years in Jail for Porn Spammers
Two men were sentenced to prison Friday in the first successful criminal prosecution under the CAN-SPAM Act. James R ... one of their spams. After the CAN-SPAM Act was passed -- it became effective January 1, 2004 ... from testifying. CAN-SPAM, or Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing, bans [more...]
Date: 2007-10-15 15:44:08
Blog: Sci-Tech Today...
8 Ad Networks Sued
A few weeks ago, 8 ad networks were served with a small claims court suit of up to $10k each for email spam ... for it? How do you choose to handle spam emails? Tags: affiliate marketing, spam email, can-spam ... an email address and keep your “serious” email account private. It’s people like this Jim Bob Wagner [more...]
Date: 2007-05-22 19:22:28
Blog: Mom Gadget - A guide t...
Spammers exploit YouTube servers
As email providers all over the world enforce strict rules for spam and users get more aware about the spam industry, spammers are coming up with new ways to get their unsolicited email through. This time, spammers ... massive quantities of spam” from genuine YouTube servers, thus defeating spam filters ... [more...]
Date: 2007-10-08 16:06:00
Blog: TechSpot: News and View...
Isn’t Email Marketing Spamming?
One of my blogging habits is to read John Chow daily. Yesterday he wrote how to do an email promotion ... form of spam? Wikipedia lists “E-mail Spam” as “unsolicited e-mail”. Unsolicited means “Not looked for or requested”. This poses the question again, isn’t email marketing just another form of spam [more...]
Date: 2007-09-12 01:16:49
Blog: Blog About Your Blog...
Can a Spam Filter Play Chess?
Many people these days depend on Bayesian filters to protect them from the ever present email scourge that is spam. Unlike older technologies, these programs' claim to fame is that they learn the spam patterns automatically, and more importantly, learn personalized spam (bad) and ham (good) email patterns [more...]
Date: 2007-11-03 11:11:09
Blog: linkfilter.net - fresh ...
Tips for Reducing Unwanted Mail
Image spam has started to decline this year and spam filters are effective at blocking most or almost all spam, but customers often submit other types of unwanted messages such as newsletters or other opt-in e-mails to us as spam. Continuing on this theme of unwanted grey mail, as previously blogged [more...]
Date: 2007-06-22 19:15:04
Blog: Computer Security Rese...
Sour Taste Of Spam Brings Down Robert Alan Soloway
Wednesday was not a good day for Robert Alan Soloway ... accused of violating both CAN-SPAM and the Computer Abuse and Fraud Act of 1984 by sending spam ... and its Register of Known Spam Operations in the “worst of the worst” criminal spammers category in 2003. “Soloway [more...]
Date: 2007-06-01 13:52:11
Blog: Adotas ...
Managing Email Spam With POPFile
When I had to re-install everything on my computer, I opted not to install a few programs including the one I used to manage spam ... percent effective spam solution, but I had enough of the tool. I’ve been using Thunderbird for email ... into a bucket or “folder” as most of us call ‘em. Before using this app, I had all newsletters [more...]
Date: 2007-10-04 19:48:57
Blog: Windows Fanatics...
Read If you can’t target, don’t spam your releases
If you can’t target, don’t spam your releases 6 11 2007 One of the many things I’ve advocated in practicing and teaching media relations has been the value of targeting rather than adopting a spam approach to mass mailing emails ... . No wonder then that Chris Anderson has responded to receiving hundreds of unsolicited, poorly targeted “ [more...]
Date: 2007-11-06 08:56:01
Blog: Heather Yaxley - Green...
The ISPs speak: don't say nobody warned you
spam I was intrigued by a couple of quotes from the folk in charge of keeping inboxes free of unwanted email. Note I didn't say free of spam ... as keeping out exactly that...unwanted email (classic spam is just one example.) Treat that as a warning ... for a legitimate marketing email (an opt-in, legal compliance etc.) Instead, you have to work hard [more...]
Date: 2007-07-18 12:46:25
Blog: Email marketing blog: N...
Comments: Slight (automated) change in policy–and an ALA note
For a while now, I’ve turned off comments for posts more than a year old–the hard way, going in and editing each comment, a month at a time. A nuisance, but it cuts the amount of spam even further, particularly the “meaningful spam” (most ... those lines. The purpose of the spam is, presumably, to increase the visibility or PageRank [more...]
Date: 2007-11-11 19:28:14
Blog: Walt at Random ...
Can a spam filter play chess?
Interesting stuff. Many people these days depend on Bayesian filters to protect them from the ever present email scourge that is spam ... automatically, and more importantly, learn personalized spam (bad) and ham (good) email patterns. Like many others, I wrote a Bayesian filter to protect me from unwanted email, which I called dbacl [more...]
Date: 2007-11-03 17:01:57
Blog: SunbeltBLOG...
On Weeding Out Trolls — I’m Adding A Comment Policy.
I wonder if adding a comments policy for the first time is like getting your first piece of blog spam — its another sign that your blog has matured ... spam For now I’m tolerating otherwise “anonymous” posts (i.e. fake name / email) provided ... what counts as abusive, off-topic, ad-hominem, hate, foul language, and spam. For all would [more...]
Date: 2007-11-11 05:33:50
Blog: Deep Jive Interests...
Porn Spammers Get Prison Sentences
In the first case prosecuted under the United States' CAN-SPAM Act to be tried before a jury, spammers Jeffrey Kilbride of Venice, California, ... in federal prison, respectively, for sending pornographic spam, as well as engaging in fraud ... and Schaffer's spamming operation dates back to 2003, when they began sending millions [more...]
Date: 2007-10-15 12:49:12
Blog: Digital Trends News - ...
Audiospam Update: Spammers Moving To MP3 Files
MessageLabs reports that spammers have introduced MP3 music files into their expanding toolbox of stock spam techniques, ... . At this point, though, spammers are using audio files as a way of getting through email spam filters. On October 17, MessageLabs intercepted the first copies of an estimated 15 million email spam run which [more...]
Date: 2007-10-31 22:54:53
Blog: Podcasting News ...
Getty Images violating US CAN-SPAM laws?
I find it interesting that a company which profits from legal system exploitation (at the cost of thousands of small-time webmasters) ... for a) assembling their email list and b) ensuring CAN-SPAM compliance. Wipe the drool from your mouth ... would send unsolicited commercial e-mail spam. I never opted in to any Getty Images e-mail list [more...]
Date: 2007-10-11 21:20:30
Blog: - Web Publishing Blog...
Symantec reports on spam trends for 2007
According to Symantec’s November report about 70.5 percent of the e-mail sent to your inbox is spam ... what do they all have in common? No, it’s not some new presidential campaign. They were all topics leveraged ... a survey asking for a lot of personal and financial information. So far as the election campaign spam [more...]
Date: 2007-11-09 14:49:27
Blog: Blogger News Network ...
John Engler, UnsubCentral
John Engler, UnsubCentral Often thought of as a new medium, e-mail has actually been around since the Internet emerged ... and effective marketing channel. Spam is still a challenge. Fortunately, industry self-regulation as well as anti-spam technologies, services and laws, including The CAN-SPAM Act of 2003, have provided much value [more...]
Date: 2007-10-10 21:19:10
Blog: DMNews.com - The News L...
Is Your Inbox Empty, Too?
On May 30th of this year, one of the ten biggest spam artists in the world was arrested in Seattle ... and the CAN-SPAM law of 2003. But is it possible he’s been the primary source of the emails reaching ... laundering, identity theft, and breaking Federal anti-spam legislation, Robert Alan Soloway was taken [more...]
Date: 2007-06-18 07:00:23
Blog: Jason’s Random Thought...
KnujOn takes the spam fight to the enemy
By Neil Roiter Garth Bruen is on a mission–to bring spammers down. His KnujOn project, (“no junk” backwards, pronounced “noo-jon”) hit a milestone this week, claiming 50,000 spam sites put out of business. “Filtering ... products or services offered via spam in a single month. KnujOn analyzes messages sent by individual [more...]
Date: 2007-11-09 16:31:18
Blog: Security Bytes — A Sear...
Kilbride and Schaffer Sentenced for International Pornographic Spamming Business
As posted at http://www.usdoj.gov/, Jeffrey Kilbride and James Schaffer, both 41 years old were sentenced on October 11, ... spamming business involved sending millions of unsolicited email messages advertising commercial ... ) Act of 2003 by sending spam messages using falsified headers and domain namesconspiracyfraudmoney [more...]
Date: 2007-10-15 12:18:00
Blog: Journey to Earning Mone...
Gmail Has Solved Our Email Spam Problem
About a year ago, I switched both my personal and email accounts over to Gmail for Domains ... marketing piece via Digg. It indicates that 70% of the email to Gmail accounts is spam, yet their spam ... then it’s been awesome. There are plenty of advantages–great search, no backup anxiety, email access [more...]
Date: 2007-10-31 12:14:29
Blog: Darren Barefoot - Vanco...
Man Jailed For Spamming
Man Jailed For Spamming Posted on November 6, 2007 Filed Under The Yard | Leave a Comment That’s right. Spammers beware! A New Jersey man was sentenced to more than two years in prison on Friday for helping send spam ... guilty earlier this year to breaking antispam laws and defeating AOL’s filter system by using [more...]
Date: 2007-11-06 03:56:07
Blog: Blackyard Technologies...
Study Finds Ron Paul Supporters Violating the CAN-SPAM Act….
I know, I know, this is shocking stuff. Maybe he didn’t win every debate, maybe he isn’t number one in the polls. Who knew?…. Anti-spam researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) noted a disturbing new ... in Computer Forensics. According to the CAN-SPAM Act, the primary law under which unwanted email [more...]
Date: 2007-10-30 01:13:09
Blog: Stop The ACLU...
Of spam, maimed spiders and odd socks
Yes, I'm still alive. Sorry for the silence, for the four of you who noticed. New job brain-drain, bloggers' block, etc ... for company. Le sigh. For some reason, spam is really starting to sap my will to live. My new gig has put me on some mean mailing lists. Combined with a spam filter set so low that you could catch [more...]
Date: 2007-11-05 11:55:28
Blog: the half-hearted hack...
Looking for the Best Defense Against Spam…Spam Inspector?s Global Spam Fighting Community Reaches Over 500,000 Users; Making it one of the Most Accurate Anti-spam Software Solutions on the Market
New York, NY June 22, 2004 ? GIANT Company Software Inc ... enables the software to stay ahead of the latest spam and email threats. The software self-learns ... email from being wrongfully blocked. ?There aren?t many, if any at all, competing spam filtering tools [more...]
Date: 2007-11-01 00:01:17
Blog: SecureBuilt.com...
Spammers get 5 years in jail
No Spam If there is one thing that I really don’t like on the internet, it is email spam ... sending millions of unsolicited porn emails. The 2 guys, aka Jeffrey A. Kilbire and James R. Schaffer, from the US, started their spam business back in 2003 and made more than $2 million. Thankfully [more...]
Date: 2007-10-17 00:51:33
Blog: Gadgetizer.com Gadget r...
spam likes the weekend
Jeremy Lizt, one of my colleagues at Rapleaf, recently pointed out that spam usually arrives at night or over the weekend ... some more information on when spam is more likely to arrive and i couldn't find anything. if anyone has some stats like this, please email me. thanks! [more...]
Date: 2007-11-12 02:20:08
Blog: Summation...
Gmail, How do I Love Thee? Let me Count the Ways...
Here's a quick Gmail goodness grab-bag top-10... Spam filtering. It just works ... I get are from Yahoo Groups (which is a spam cesspit anyway) and mailing lists that include spam samples (uhhh ... you can "file" a message in more than one of them. Fetchmail. Integrated, as way of grabbing your email [more...]
Date: 2007-10-24 16:00:52
Blog: Richi Jennings: Stuff '...
Gmail Want Help With Spam Filters
I have been spending a fair amount of time recently pulling email I want to read from the spam folder, even emails sent to me from my own contact form. Today while pulling an email from the spam ... -GNU GPL Andy Beard - Niche Marketing Blog search engine performance, Wordpress and general niche [more...]
Date: 2007-09-15 08:28:01
Blog: Niche Marketing - Andy ...
Spam Justice: Spammer gets 2 years for AOL scam
A spammer from New Jersey who sent spam to 1.27 million AOL email addresses was sentenced to two years ... Vitale of New York pleaded guilty earlier this year to breaking antispam laws and defeating AOL's ... and had profited $40,000 a month from other spam e-mail scams that promoted stocks, prosecutors said [more...]
Date: 2007-11-04 15:09:42
Blog: The Blog - ...
“Spam King” Robert Soloway Arrested
Before I get carried away with news about Google Gears, ... the Computer Abuse and Fraud Act of 1984 and the CAN-SPAM law of 2003. Soloway first appeared in the Spamhaus Block List (SBL) in 2001. In 2003, he was listed on Spamhaus’s Register of Known Spam Operations [more...]
Date: 2007-05-31 14:42:07
Blog: Global Nerdy ...
US spammer sentenced to 2 years in prison
This article has been published at RLSLOG.net - visit our site for full content ... large volumes of spam in a way that concealed the email’s true source. Moeller and Vitale said ... in 2005 for violating anti-spam laws, while last year a Texas college student who led a massive spam [more...]
Date: 2007-11-04 11:03:12
Blog: Releaselog | RLSLOG.net...
Can text message spam be forever cast into the darkness from whence it came?
Has anyone had any luck in stopping text message spam? Cingular/ATT, Treo 650 I'm getting positively (or negatively, as it were) bombarded ... , but not all. It has been a bit sad when I have to explain to the tech folks what a spam filter is, so I have no clue [more...]
Date: 2007-11-12 03:33:49
Blog: Ask MetaFilter | Commun...
Increasing use of personalized spam
Last week, we received a sample of personalized spam ... alumni lists. There are a lot of open alumni lists out there, as this Google search shows ... , a finely targeted spam has a higher chance of being read and acted upon. And that’s one more reason [more...]
Date: 2007-10-03 12:59:24
Blog: SunbeltBLOG...
Chris Anderson Versus the Flack Spammers
Chris Anderson the editor of Wired Magazine, gets spam. Not the garden variety pills and stock tips brand, but Flack Spam or unsolicited pitches from PR ... that over 80% of email traffic is spam - surprised it isn’t even higher). - This just escalates [more...]
Date: 2007-10-31 03:40:03
Blog: Webwalker...
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F.R.E.E...C.I.G.A.R.E.T.T.E.S....iLBR3rmGNN Find some free sites with cheap cigarettes: ===>>> http://www.google.com/search?q=free+cigarettes WEBMASTERS SIGN UP: http://www.free-cigarettes.com WORK N0 MORE! Those days are over. GET INSTANT SPAM 100%!!! Did you ever think a MONEY MAKING SCHEME doesnt work? Now it does! Our SPAM 2000 ( [more...]
Date: 2007-11-10 08:35:49
Blog: Wireless and Wifi Forum...
Communicating with Your Connections - Spam or Networking?
Here’s the question — is it ethical to add your LinkedIn connections to your newsletter list, or at the very least, a list of people you routinely contact? Where are the boundaries? On the one hand, adding people to a “mailing list” without their express consent is spamming [more...]
Date: 2007-07-20 17:16:43
Blog: Linked Intelligence ...
Unwitting spam...is still spam
...and the problem is ignorance. Much excitement online as Chris Anderson publicly shamed and outed the PR folk who send him ... by the recipient. And that badly targeted email, whether opt-in or not, can hurt your business, brand ... ) struggle to make their lists smaller and smaller. The lazy ones just try to make them bigger." Second [more...]
Date: 2007-11-01 10:30:11
Blog: Email marketing blog: N...
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