A report released this week, commissioned by Pontis, has shown that nearly two thirds of mobile users are fed up with mobile phone spam. via Total Telecom
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These company’s were noted in the Qwoter Stock Spam Report Overview for August 2 ,2007 Reported Stock Spam From Qwoter ————————————————————– 1. Exchange Mobile … via M2.com
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I’ve been writing about spam for nearly four years, and because antispam vendors are always eager to share the dregs of what their spam filters catch with journalists to demonstrate their products’ … via NetworkWorld
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ALTHOUGH RESTAURANT EVE is not a participant in this year’s Restaurant Week , it offers an inexpensive lunch option year-round. Less than 15 bucks buys two choices off the ‘ Lickety Split ‘ menu, which may … via Express
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Researchers at UCSD have published a study of scam hosting practices [PDF,844K] and come to the conclusion that 94% of all spams ultimately reference websites that are hosted by no more than one server each. The authors suggest that more aggressive take-downs of spam-related servers could have an impact on spammer operations.
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Update: 36 hours on and my additional storage is still not approved/activated by Google. I’ve sent three queries and had no replies. The message above still sits atop my Gmail page. Is Google ready for this kind of customer-service oriented…
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“Each violation of the above provisions is subject to fines of up to $11,000.”

I just received an unsolicited e-mail from Robert Sexton of Star Positions. I’ve posted the text of the e-mail below. via This is going to be BIG.
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Cellphone viruses: hype or hellish new threat– apodcast I recorded for the BBC World Service Business Daily. If you want to subscribe to an RSS feed of this podcast you can do so here, or it can be found on…
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Finally after years of receiving it I tried to buy something out of the spam I got, but damn it is difficult, and who is to blame? the spam killers - filters, finders and removers, because of them I can no longer read what the spammer is actually trying to sell me even […]
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“Fewer users said spam has made using email unpleasant or annoying: 63 percent in this survey, down from 67 percent in 2005, 77 percent in 2004, and 71 percent in 2003.”

About one-third of mobile users don’t seem to mind receiving spam on their phone, according to a recently published report. via Techworld
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“The availability of scam infrastructure is critical to spam profitability — a single takedown of a scam server or a spammer redirect can curtail the earning potential of an entire spam campaign”

August 10, 2007 Stopping Spammers at The Point of Sale By Andy Patrizio A group of researchers from the University of California at San Diego offered up what they felt was a new and unique way to target … via InternetNews
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Prime Time Group, Inc. today verified that several SPAM emails have been sent to recipients purportedly offering information about Prime Time Group and its stock. via Market Wire
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Stormy weather

A dodgy spam definition update from Cloudmark has crashed users’ email clients.
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Stock spammers currently promoting PRTH.PK are continuing to try new variants in the hope of getting through. Some recent spams have included attachments in ‘.fdf’ format (used for fillable PDF forms) and there have also been extensive plaintext floods, using various degrees of obfuscation to try to get around spam filters. Yesterday’s flood, which delivered 338 messages to our spam traps, was the largest single-day stock spam run we’ve seen to date.
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Stormy weatherA dodgy spam definition update from Cloudmark has crashed users’ email clients.Original post by Dougal and a wordpress plugin by Elliott
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This just in from SpamSuite: Sindeelou Thomson has sued US Representative John Doolittle for sending her unwanted spam. [Channel 13, Sacremento story].

Given that the CAN-SPAM act specifically legalizes political spam, I don’t think this will get a lot of traction. In this particular case, however, she’s suing under the California anti-spam law which is somewhat tougher than CAN-SPAM. This may be worth watching.
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“We want to make it possible for anyone to build a search site for $500. We don’t view Google as the competition, we view cost as the competition.”

Google and its search engine competitors may be facing hundreds - or thousands - of new rivals. via Techworld
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