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PATH: BS | Technology | Internet | Spam MySpace Gets $234M Judgement Against Spam Gang Posted by Pile (12819 views) [E-Mail link] [Spam] A spammer that supposedly "went clean" several years ago and left the spamming industry is again caught for sending junk mail. The popular online hangout MySpace has won a $234 million judgment over junk messages sent to its members in what is believed to be the largest anti-spam award ever. READ MORE | No comments | Comment on this Article Spammer Gets Nine Years In Prison Posted by Pile (14024 views) [E-Mail link] [Spam] Virginia's Supreme Court on Friday upheld the first US felony conviction for spamming. The spammer will serve nine years in prison for sending what authorities believe to be millions of messages over a two-month period in 2003. Jeremy Jaynes is the man who will make history. A Raleigh, North Carolina, resident who made Spamhaus' top 10 list of spammers, Jaynes was arrested in 2003 even before the CAN SPAM act was passed by Congress. Jaynes was convicted in 2005, but his lawyers appealed the conviction. This past Friday, the Virginia Supreme Court upheld that conviction, but the vote was a narrow 4-3. READ MORE | 1 comment since 2008-03-07 00:59:26 | Comment on this Article Microsoft Hotmail Taken Over By Spammers Posted by Pile (24335 views) [E-Mail link] [Spam] At first I thought this was an anomaly, but after weeks of this activity happening over and over, it cannot be ignored: Microsoft's Hotmail servers seem to have been taken over by spammers and are now pumping out large quantities of spam. READ MORE | 23 comments since 2011-11-18 13:20:35 | Comment on this Article "Top Spammer" Indicted Posted by Pile (13275 views) [E-Mail link] [Get-Rich-Quick] [Spam] A 27-year-old man described as one of the world's most prolific spammers was arrested Wednesday, and federal authorities said computer users across the Web could notice a decrease in the amount of junk e-mail. Robert Alan Soloway is accused of using networks of compromised "zombie" computers to send out millions upon millions of spam e-mails. "He's one of the top 10 spammers in the world," said Tim Cranton, a Microsoft Corp. lawyer who is senior director of the company's Worldwide Internet Safety Programs. "He's a huge problem for our customers. This is a very good day." Despite the claim that this "top spammer" has been captured, we see no indication whatsoever that spam volume has been reduced. But it's still a good sign that the government is finally pulling their heads out of the sand and dealing with these criminals. READ MORE | No comments | Comment on this Article U.K. ISP Tiscali "Taken Down By Spammers" Posted by Pile (13139 views) [E-Mail link] [Spam] Spammers have knocked out the e-mail service for many of the customers of internet service provider (ISP) Tiscali, the firm has said. BSA's take on this is that Tiscali, long having had a reputation for bad security, has allowed their customers' zombied PCs to run rampant, and now have been wholesale blacklisted by many other ISPs around the world, who are fed up with this service provider being a constant source of junk e-mail. READ MORE | No comments | Comment on this Article Spammer Faces 101 Years In PMITA Prison! Posted by Pile (12662 views) [E-Mail link] [Spam] [Good News] Spamming scumbag Jeffrey Brett Goodin has been convicted under the 2003 CAN-SPAM Act, the first person in the U.S. prosecuted successfully under the law. He is facing a sentence of up to 101 years in a federal prison after being found guilty of numerous illegal acts. According to prosecutors, Goodin was convicted on multiple counts in addition to the CAN-SPAM conviction, including wire fraud, unauthorized use of credit cards, misuse of the AOL trademark and attempted witness harassment. READ MORE | No comments | Comment on this Article Battle Rages Between Spammers and Anti-Spammers Posted by Pile (9225 views) [E-Mail link] [Spam] [Beating Dead Horses] An Israeli company called Blue Security has attracted the ire of the spam community by introducing a new system whereby people subscribe to a "do not spam" registry and download client software that effectively attacks spam advertisers if they violate the do-not-spam rules. The spamming community has not been happy with this and have launched their own counter attack against Blue Security (and anybody in between). In the process, these two warring factions have interrupted thousands of internet sites and systems. And still, the federal authorities seem completely uninterested in actually enforcing computer tampering and anti-spamming laws. READ MORE | 1 comment since 2008-08-18 12:29:34 | Comment on this Article Scammers Now Using Automated Phone Systems For Identity Theft Posted by Pile (10021 views) [E-Mail link] [Spam] A San Francisco-based e-mail security company, said it has seen two separate attacks this week. In both cases, the spammed message warns of a problem with a bank account and instructs the recipient to dial a phone number to resolve it. The caller is connected to a voice response system that is made to sound exactly like the bank's own system. "The phone system identifies itself to the target as the financial institution and prompts them to enter account number and PIN." READ MORE | 1 comment since 2008-08-17 22:17:35 | Comment on this Article Spammer Faces Up to 640 Years In Prison Posted by Pile (8663 views) [E-Mail link] [Spam] Florida spammer, Scott Levine was found guilty in Federal court on 120 counts of unauthorized access to data, two counts of access device fraud and one count of obstruction of justice, and now faces up to $30M in fines and 640 years in a Federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison. The owner of spam company, Snipermail.com was caught stealing 1.6 billion user records from data-management company Acxiom Corp. No word if Acxiom got in trouble for the crappy security it had in place which allowed so much of its customer info to be pilfered. In any case, it's a happy day when one more spammer gets taken down. We have to give the Feds props for finally going after these people. READ MORE | No comments | Comment on this Article Russia's Biggest Spammer Brutally Murdered Posted by Pile (8682 views) [E-Mail link] [Spam] Vardan Kushnir, notorious for sending spam to each and every citizen of Russia who appeared to have an e-mail, was found dead in his Moscow apartment on Sunday, Interfax reported Monday. He died after suffering repeated blows to the head. READ MORE | 1 comment since 2005-08-02 21:19:38 | Comment on this Article 10 Articles displayed. Show More Articles.

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