Tag Archives: email spam

There have recently been two publicized, high profile attacks on email marketing services.  The two services are Aweber and iContact, each confirming the attacks within about a month of each other. These companies, and many others like them, provide email …

British ISPs have reacted strongly to the suggestion of Trend Micro CTO David Rand that the ISPs should actively combat the problem of spam on the internet. Rand’s suggestion is the blocking of TCP port 25 (the port used for …

Business Week reports that a study by researchers in New York reveals that as many as one in five young, overweight people have been a victim of email spam. The study revealed some interesting statistics: 88% of overweight individuals reported …

It has been a big year for the internet with social networks continuing to grow at an amazing pace, search engines scrambling to keep pace with user demand for fresh news, and as always spam and malware causing havoc around …

I came across an article today written last week that proclaimed “We won the war on spam”.  The general thrust of the article is that “despite continued hysteria, unwanted e-mail is largely a thing of the past”. This is an …

The Sydney Morning Herald reported yesterday that a new scam is making the rounds in the land down under. A perpetrator of a phishing scam has created an email scam, claiming to be the Australian Tax Office (ATO). The email …

A new spam campaign appears to be coming from hijacked Yahoo, Hotmail, and GMail accounts. The messages all advertise Chinese electronics and apparel retailers (and it’s a sure bet that the products they sell are counterfeits!) and look something like this: …

I’ve received dozens of emails like this one, and file them along with the notices that I’ve won a million dollars, and that somebody I don’t know needs my help to distribute their wealth. That is, emails that offer a …