14 DAY TRIAL // The Securities and Exchange Commission announced today that 35 companies that started repeated spam campaigns on the Internet received trading suspensions for fraudulent spam emails. It seems like almost 100 millions of spam messages are sent every week, disturbing a bigger number of email owners from every corner of the world.
"Many of these companies are no doubt familiar to anyone who reads their email, because each has been the subject of a spam email campaign. While the Commission cautions investors not to make investment decisions based on anonymous emails they receive, we are also committed to tracking down those who prey on investors with false or misleading information," Linda Chatman Thomsen, Director of the SEC's Enforcement Division, said according to a press release published by the organization.
This decision is extremely useful for the web-based e-mails because it is very important to offer a secure solution for the Internet users. As you surely know, Google's mail service Gmail is regarded as the most efficient mail product against unwanted messages; but the Gmail team was really thrilled when the decision was officially announced. Gmail's rival, Yahoo Mail was recently assaulted by a huge number of critics issued by its users that were continuously attacking the company for its spam filters included in the mail service.
Yahoo Mail is often regarded as a weak antispam solution because tons of unwanted messages are sent every day from the accounts hosted by Yahoo. Although there are numerous solutions sustaining they are able to block the spam emails, only some of them managed to block an impressive percent of the spam, but none of them blocked all the unwanted mails. So, if SEC's decision really improves the security of our inboxes, maybe the authorities from all around the world should join the fight and start taking similar actions.