Startup Makes Spammers Pay
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A new e-mail-forwarding service wants to force marketers to shell out hard cash to get their commercial messages through, and give you most of the money. By John Hudson.
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Lycos claims to have come up with a novel solution to spam by letting the public get their revenge on the spammers. The company has developed a downloadable screensaver which generates traffic on the websites of known spammers.
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The Spam maker squeals with delight at positive earnings.
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Legitimate mortgage lenders inadvertently support--and get tangled in--spam traps.
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Spammers have come close to ruining e-mail--and threaten to do the same to Internet telephony. The time to stop them is now.
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Lycos made headlines during the past several days by distributing a screensaver designed to swamp the sites of those deemed responsible for spam with traffic, in effect giving spammers, at least the companies that bankroll them, a taste of their own
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One of internet users' most common misconceptions is that obnoxious advertising doesn't work. In reality, it works all too well, generating very nice returns for purveyors of spam and pop-ups at the expense of the rest of us. By Adam L. Penenberg.
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Spammers exploit your Achillesâ heel (or other body part).
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In open-source software and new media, there's big money in unpaid labor
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So you think you get a lot of spam, maybe a few hundred per day? Well think about the amount that bill gates gets at Microsoft, over 4 million a day apparently!
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Shark Tank: Spam is heavy at this mortgage company, so a consultant is brought in to review six months of accumulated spam and set up an antispam appliance that should kill 98% of the junk. Everyone's happy. Then it goes live.
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Several Internet companies, including Microsoft and eBay, are working on new ways to keep spammers from infiltrating their sites.
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A screensaver developed by Lycos Europe that gives spammers a dose of their own medicine is attracting plenty of attention, but not all of it good.
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Antispam lawsuits and enforcement actions suggest that companies taking a wink-and-nudge approach to affiliates should be careful about how they lure paying customers. By Ryan Singel.
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Software kits make it easy for novice hackers to earn a living by sending out malware-laden spam.
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Application that claimed to "spam the spammers" caused much controversy.
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Think you can't afford best-of-breed spam and virus protection for your business? Here are two good reasons to think again.