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MySpace wins $234 million against spammers
The social networking website wins a massive court judgement against junk mailers, although it will have a hard task collecting the award.
Facebook spammer ordered to pay millions in damages
A US court sends out a message that criminal spammers will face huge penalties if caught.
Researchers hijack Storm botnet for spam study
Californian researchers pretend to be spammers, discovering that it takes millions of email messages to get a sale, but botnets are still profitable.
Spammers using PDF to avoid detection
The first spam email with a PDF attachment was detected in early June, and now PDF spam is making up eight per cent of all junk mail.
First wave of MP3 spam targets unwary music fans
MP3 files posing as pop music clips show that spammers are trying new ways to lower people's guard
UK tops list of Nigerian spam targets
A worldwide spam analysis experiment reveals that those spammers just can’t resist targeting British internet users with bogus deals and money...
Attachment spam on the rise
Spammers increasingly turn to attachment spam as a means of avoiding detection by junk mail filters.
Spammers get business savvy
Security threats in January have increasingly focused on search engines, latest news, and seasonal trends to entrap unwary users, a new security...
Why spam still poses a danger
Users seem to have become accustomed to spam but we cannot rest easy as spammers keep the pressure on to deliver more and more junk in your inbox.
Wikipedia takes on spammers with new links policy
The online encyclopaedia attempts to cut down on link spamming by tagging external URLs so that search engines will ignore them.
Ukrainian heads up top ten spammer list
Anti-spam outfit names and shames world's most prolific spammers
Spammers charged for pump and dump scam
Stock scammers used spam to defraud investors of over a million dollars
Tiscali email outage blamed on spammers
ISP gets blacklisted after spammers hijack Tiscali user accounts.