Spam Purgatory

In this day and age almost everybody that has access to the internet also has an online e-mail account. And if you have an e-mail account, spam is definitely an issue that you have encountered. According to Trend Micro’s report covering January to June 2010, spam makes up for 97 percent of all e-mails in [...]

Were you going through your inbox when you noticed a number of non-delivery notices? Are you trying to figure out when you sent them? Well stop scratching your head so much, if you don’t remember sending all those bounced e-mails then you probably didn’t send them. So the question is; Who is sending spam from [...]

By now everybody should know that when you sign up for an e-mail account you can expect a bunch of spam e-mails to come with it. Finding your inbox full of new e-mails can be a pleasant surprise, however when the majority of the e-mails are from unknown senders advertising the craziest of things, it’s [...]

Following an investigation that was led by officers from the Met’s Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU), six people, five men and one lady were arrested this week. The suspects are aged 25 to 40 and were arrested in London and County Meath, Ireland on Tuesday and Wednesday. The investigation was called Operation Dynamophone and it [...]

Considering just how often Facebook is targeted by spammers and scammers, it is no wonder that they felt it necessary to explain Facebook’s spam prevention systems to the public. Caroline Ghiossi, an associate on Facebook’s user operations team, wrote a post where she stated, “Just as a community relies on its citizens to report crime, [...]

The United States Federal Trade Commission accused Belize-based 3FN of assisting cyber gangs that controlled botnets, carried out phishing attacks and engaged in the illegitimate trade of child porn. Through several efforts the FTC finally managed to shutdown 3FN by having its servers and net hardware seized thus dismantling the malicious internet service provider. The [...]