Spamming is definitely a problem for all of us because I'm sure there's no internet user that can keep his e-mail's inbox clean. Spamming is not only a process that attacks e-mail accounts. It can attack many more internet services such as forums, blogs, websites and even SMSs. Some time ago, many security companies announced that they are encountering problems with blogs spamming, a malicious activity that can place numerous comments on a single article.

At that time, the issue was resolved with the help of captchas (images with verification text that must be written to be able to post a comment). Recently, it was made public that a new spam alternative was very popular in December, sending multiple SMS messages to mobile phones from the entire world. Although the security companies said that all mobile phones owners are vulnerable, mobile operators announced that they can block the sender, so the issue was resolved.

Today, McAfee's employees announced that a new way of spamming was reported to the company, an alternative that can bring money to the spammer with ease: a message that requires you to pay $1 to avoid additional spam methods. Probably the spammer didn't know that McAfee is one of the most powerful companies that are fighting against this activity, so its employees reported him to the Russian authorities.

Andrey Slabosnickiy from Rostov-on-Don was insightful enough to invite one of our international spam-traps to unsubscribe from his general database for a buck. By providing many ways to make the unsubscribe payment (Web Money, Yandex, SMS, or e-mail addresses), Andrey will be leaving quite a money trail for the local authorities to follow should they wish to do so, though I doubt they will given the state of local anti-spam laws.