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Best Practices Guide For Email Marketers The Email Sender and Provider Coalition (ESPC) just released their "ESPC Best Practices Guide." The book is a list of guidelines that help reinforce the industry best practices for email communications and includes an updated version of the "ESPC Email Marketing Pledge." The guide covers a number... Date: 2005-12-16 Anti Spam At The Enterprise Level Every one of us knows how spam impacts us. Every day we either get a ton of spam - or if we're fairly well protected by spam filters - only a few pieces. Date: 2005-11-21 Spammers Nailed With $37 Million Fine A judge in Massachusetts has handed down a huge punishment to a spam gang operating out of Boston and Russia and ordered their sites shut down. The US-based sites run by Leo Kuvayev and his group have been shut down already... Date: 2005-10-14 Yahoo! Japan Phisher Gets Suspended Sentence If Kazuma Yabano stays out of trouble for four years, his 22-month prison sentence will simply go away. First Sasser Sven gets a wrist-tap from a German court, and now this. As security firm Sophos reports, Mr. Yabano's conviction related to the creation of a fake Yahoo! Japan... Date: 2005-09-15 Blogger Filters Out Spam, But No Comprende The folks at Blogger have been pretty quick to respond to user criticism over the copious amount of spam blogs (splogs) dirtying up the air at blogspot.com by implementing some "artificial intelligence" to weed out the posers. Some more tweaking may be needed however, if you only speak one language. Date: 2005-09-06 Three More Spammers Canned Federal prosecutors in Phoenix have won indictments against three people accused of violating the CAN-SPAM Act. Run a massive spam ring, enjoy the attention of federal agents and attorneys. That's the reality for James Schaffer, Jeffrey Kilbride, and Jennifer Clason, each charged last week with two counts of fraud and a count of criminal conspiracy, an AP story reports. Date: 2005-08-29 Gmail Adds New Feature Another brick in the virtual Googleplex, giving users yet another reason to never use anything without the Google stamp on it, Nathan Weinberg tips us off to a new Gmail feature called "Send mail as." Date: 2005-08-24 Sploggers Quick On The Draw So I was checking out Blogger and Next Blogging my way around, taking full advantage of the new "Flag As Objectionable" feature like some kind of cyber-sniper, whizzing shots by the ears of every spam blog (splog) I could find, when I came across a stubborn one. The day after Google released the Flag feature, one of these splogs had already out smarted it thanks to Internet Explorer's relative inability to block pop-ups. Date: 2005-08-22 Spam Dealer Gets Year In The Can Former America Online employee Jason Smathers learned the hard way that crimes in cyberspace are real crimes as a US District Court judge sentenced him to a year and three months in prison. Smathers, a software engineer, admitted to stealing 92 million screen names and e-mail addresses and then selling them to spammers. Date: 2005-08-18 AOL Giving Away Seized Spammer Assets The AOL Spammer's Gold Sweepstakes gives people a shot at winning a notorious spammer's yellow Hummer H2, as well as cash and gold. Date: 2005-08-11 Mixed Messages From Microsoft's Spam-King Settlement? Microsoft with some help from the New York Attorney Gerneral's office has won a $7 million settlement from Spam King Scott Richter. Date: 2005-08-10 Is
There A Future For Spam? The Economics Of Spam How DO Spammers Get Your Email Address? Spam Messages Increase, Lose Effectiveness So What Makes A Good Spam Filter Anyway? How To Use Guerilla Warfare On Spammers EU Anti-Spam Measures Face Uphill Struggle |
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