14 DAY TRIAL // Millions of spam messages are sent every day to a huge number of e-mail addresses by attackers that are looking to advertise their products or obtain financial information from the owners. Although there are a lot of antispam applications that sustain they can block these unwanted messages, our POP3 accounts are assaulted every day by multiple e-mails containing ads to medicines, watches or other products. There are a lot of users that prefer to use a web based e-mail instead of a POP3 account because some of the mail providers are offering powerful spam filters meant to protect the inbox against unwanted messages. The best example is represented by Gmail that is now available for free for all Internet users and is regarded as a web based e-mail service meant to protect you against spam.
Because the users are continuously looking for a powerful solution to block spam messages but the software companies are unable to provide one, authorities from all around the world are now fighting to block and arrest spammers from certain locations. Although Russia is regarded as the country that contains the highest number of hackers, Singapore's authorities are now trying to promote a new set of rules meant to increase the punishments against spammers.
"The new set of rules would prohibit the use of automated address gathering or predictive 'dictionary attack' mailing, as well as sending unsolicited spam messages to either email addresses or mobile phones. Spamming is defined in the proposed law in terms of the number of messages with identical or similar content sent in given time periods, and penalties could reach S$1 million (around $650,000 US) for serious bulk mailers," Virus Bulletin sustained in an article published on the official page.