With it being the holiday season, it’s understandable that spammers are going to launch everything they can to see what works.  Which is unfortunate since that means more and more of these emails will get past junk mail filters, meaning you have to manually remove them yourself.  Just brace yourself for it, since it will […]

With the amount of spam online combined with people’s interest in celebrities is bound to make this new spam tactic quite successful.  The newest trend of sending spam is to use celebrity names to help entice people to look at the messages.  Of course, this is not just spam we are talking about either.  The […]

For those of you who are unfamiliar with them, CAPCHA’s are those pictures at the end of forms with random letters and numbers which you have to enter into an accompanying text box.  The purpose of this is to determine humans from bots or automated scripts.  Well, it’s intention is really to prevent bots and […]

It’s crazy to hear about the things this worm is doing, even though various patches have been developed to mitigate (or at least minimize) the threat.  While this worm may be dying down, it is definitely not going without a fight.  It recently delivered 15 million mp3-oriented emails to unsuspecting recipients about buying a specific […]

I haven’t seen a prison sentence in violation of the Can-Spam Act in I can’t remember how long.  Well, it looks like 2 men are now facing the consequences of violating this act.  Not only do they have to forfeit their profits of over $1 million, but they also have to serve 5 years in […]

Spammers have taken advantage of YouTube to help deliver their spam, but not in the way you be expecting.  They are not doing it through videos, they are doing it through YouTube’s ‘Invite a Friend’ feature.  Seems like some spammers were able to exploit a vulnerability that allowed them access to the mail server that […]

I thought this was worth sharing. I’m not sure how big this spammer was, but it sounded like he was making quite a bit of money by spamming and taking advantage of people. I’m almost tempted to pick up his book to see what kinds of dirty things actually go on in the […]

As spam filters become more sophisticated in identifying spam emails, spammers have to think of new and innovative ways to get their emails past the filters. At first, it looked like the giant leap for spammers had to do with their use of images, but that does not seem to be the case anymore. […]

Just because it is a day of love doesn’t mean that it can’t be a day of deception either. Spammers and identity thieves are taking advantage of the upcoming holiday to send deceptive emails regarding free Valentines-related things (chocolate, flowers, etc.). The only love you’ll be getting from these emails is some malware […]

It sounds bizarre, but it very well could be true. It looks like mother nature is not fond of spam either.
Mother Nature may be hitting back at the scourge of spam-filled inboxes, according to IE Internet.
The web hosting and monitoring firm believes the recent earthquake that hit Taiwan in late December may be responsible […]