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Spammers Need Human Workforce to Solve CAPTCHAs

Since email spamming means sending messages to millions of users at a time, spammers need lots of email accounts in order to reach this goal. Because creating email accounts manually would be like swimming from UK to the US, they have created special bots supposed to register new usernames automatically. However, com...

10 April 2008
17:06 GMT

Hitman Offs World's Worst Spammer!

Things are getting worse by the day, cyber-crime is growing larger and, if until now, there were only a few computer-crimes here and there, nowadays, it has escalated to levels we've never imagined. And it's rough out there! After reading this English translation of a piece of news from Russia, I learned th...

12 October 2007
04:15 GMT

Anti-Spam Law Against Free Speech

Everybody's bugged by spam nowadays, and as if the fact that it's annoying weren't enough, people make a profit by using spam too. That's why anti-spam laws exist, so that spam-scammers and other scammers too can be punished. But recently, a lawyer defending one of the world's greatest spamme...

13 September 2007
04:44 GMT

MySpace Takes Spammer Down!

MySpace has just shown that it really takes care of its registered users. Recently, they rooted out a spammer by suing him in court. The MySpace people filed a lawsuit against spammer Sanford Wallace that was using MySpace for his own financial purposes. What he did was send a lot of messages to MySpace users, trying...

22 August 2007
08:55 GMT


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