One guy who’s done great stuff detailing and researching the efforts of spammers, scammers and phishers Down Under is Daniel McNamara of Code Fish, a site for students of Linux. He’s just launched a new site today dedicated to “to following and exposing spam scams” which will include some of his detailed dissections of some… Read More »
Here’s an interesting postscript to recent money scams, courtesy of The Melbourne Age (via the Indonesian Expat Newsletter). An Australian received an email promising him money for nothing; he replied with his details to the sender of the email and found within a couple of hours $23,000 in his bank account. He was then asked… Read More »
Here’s a different take on the spam wars: the granny spammer. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution tells the story of Flo Fox, a graying grandmother in a “What Would Jesus Do?” T-shirt who uses a couple of shopworn computers to out millions of junk e-mails for merchandise ranging from land in Belize to blessed coins. What I… Read More »
There’s another campaign on the road: This time it’s telling you not to buy anything advertised on spam. I don’t know anyone who would do this kind of thing, but there you are. According to Mike Adams (“President & CEO, Arial Software, LLC, Permission Email Pioneer and founder of the “Spam. Don’t Buy It.” public… Read More »
The U.S. Congress has passed the anti-spam bill, after the House voted to approve minor Senate amendments, The Register reports. Not everyone thinks it’s a good idea. The Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing (CAN-SPAM) Act does more harm than good in the fight against spam, according to critics. The bill criminalises common… Read More »