Tag: SPAMMER

Using the little-used and relatively unknown soft hyphen, spammers are pumping out malicious sites with domain names that bypass normal URL filtering methods. Some browsers -- and it's not clear from Symantec's post which Web browsers are affected, other than Firefox 2 -- simply ignore soft hyphens (HTML entity ­) found in URLs. A spammer can then create a link that looks like the real ...

Gmail users should take note that Google will disable accounts (for about 24 hours) if you send an e-mail to more than 500 recipients via the web interface, or 100 recipients via POP/IMAP. Also, if you send e-mail to too many undeliverable addresses, prepare to face the Google hammer. Gmail takes these measures in an attempt to keep spammers off of their system. Sending bulk e-mail or sending to ...

Only a tiny fraction of internet users respond to spam email messages promising miracle drugs, hot dates, or the ability to enlarge various anatomical parts. But spam is still a profitable industry. One former spammer who goes by the name of Spammer-X says he made $480,000 during his last year as a spam artist. He worked hard for his money, spending ten hours a day, seven days a week devising new ...

SPAM. Just the physical way the word looks in our inbox makes us cringe. Forget about a few spam emails a day, some of us are lucky enough to get hundreds! And who do we have to thank? Herbal remedies, Viagra suppliers, and just plain junk. The war is still waging in the legal system today, and thankfully another goof has pleaded guilty. A 26 year old man has pleaded guilty to sending spam ...

Social networks are great for meeting people and checking out what interests others. But what happens when social networks go bad? We have all heard about the issues MySpace and other networks have with predators lurking, and now we get to hear a bit more about the spamming that affects social networks. MySpace has filed a lawsuit against an individual who has apparently sent millions of spam ...

What's better than spam? How about seeing a man found guilty of operating a phishing scheme face 101 years in prison? A 45 year old man in California was recently found guilty of posing as AOL's billing department and tricking people into giving him their credit card information, by using hacked Earthlink accounts and fraudulent web pages. Under the glorious Can-Spam Act, this guy has been ...