Spammer Accused in Fraud Case
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A man described as one of the nationâs most prolific senders of spam was among 11 people accused in a federal indictment of defrauding people by manipulating Chinese stock prices.
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Jail looms A notorious American spammer is heading for jail after a Virginia Appeals Court upheld his conviction and sentence to nine years' imprisonment for junk mail offences.â¦
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A federal grand jury in Detroit has indicted a Michigan man dubbed the "spam king," and 10 others, in an international illegal bulk e-mailing and stock fraud scheme, the U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday.
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Fraudulent citizen alert e-mail purports to be from the Justice Department.
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A federal grand jury has indicted a Michigan man dubbed the âspam king,â and 10 others, in an international illegal bulk e-mailing and stock fraud operation.
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Malicious e-mails purporting to come from the Better Business Bureau assert that a customer lodged a complaint against the recipient's business.
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A spammer whom authorities say e-mailed more than 9 billion unwanted advertisements for products like erection pills faces a hefty fine: If he needs headache medication or debt relief there's probably an unsolicited ad in his own inbox.
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Three people who allegedly sent America Online customers millions of junk e-mail messages touting penny stocks and other Internet gimmicks went on trial Tuesday in the nation's first such felony case.
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The suits include the first filed by America Online against spammers who use instant messaging, a practice the online industry calls spimming.
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Federal prosecutors and a former America Online software engineer have negotiated a tentative plea agreement over charges he stole more than 92 million e-mail addresses and sold them to Internet spammers, according to two people familiar with the case.
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Texas sued one of the world's largest  "spam" e-mail operations on Thursday, seeking millions of  dollars from two men it says are responsible for sending  illegal messages on the Internet, the state's attorney general  said.
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A federal grand jury in Detroit has  indicated a Michigan man dubbed the "spam king," and 10 others,  in an international illegal bulk e-mailing and stock fraud  scheme, the U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday.
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Website shows how you can hit back, too An Edinburgh man has obtained damages of more than Â£1,300 from British-based spammer.â¦
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A Seattle man was arrested Wednesday morning for illegal spamming activities.
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A suspected Russian mobster was charged this week with identity theft in a phishing style scam. Andrew Schwarmkoff, 28, was arraigned in a Boston-area District Court on multiple counts
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Application that claimed to "spam the spammers" caused much controversy.
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An Internet service provider in Iowa has been awarded more than $1 billion in what is believed to be the largest lawsuit judgment ever against spammers.