Spammers target companies looking for stock boost
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A plan to bump up the bandwidth bills of spammers seems to be getting out of control. Earlier this week Lycos Europe released a screensaver that bombards spam websites with data to try to increase the cost of running such sites.
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Your e-mail gets spammed, your instant messaging client gets spammed, your blog comments get spammed... and now your printer doesn't have to feel left out, because researcher Aaron Weaver has discovered how the sellers of pump-and-dump stocks and dubious chemical concoctions can get you there, too.
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The promotion of penny stocks, for years a staple of Internet spam, has recently burst forth in splashy full-page ads in major daily newspapers.
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Internet users are being given the chance to hit back at the spammers that have become the scourge of the web, thanks to free software being distributed by Lycos Europe, the internet portal.
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By CARRIE JOHNSON  WASHINGTON - Securities regulators halted trading in nearly three dozen companies - the initial salvo in "Operation Spamalot," a campaign to block e-mails promoting stocks to unsuspecting investors.
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Rampages through the Pink Sheets The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today hit back at 'pump and dump' fraudsters by suspending trading in 35 companies that have been the "subject of recent and repeated spam email campaigns". Next step of its pleasingly named "Operation Spamalot", is to find the perpetrators and bring them to justice.â¦
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Striking out against spammers (sounds good already!) Lycos have developed a screensaver that should help to put the nasty blighters out of business.
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Another day, another filter-evading tactic from the spammer. This time, they're pitching their woo in the form of e-mail stationery "backgrounds," which aren't generally scanned by filtering tools. Experts say the trend is rising.
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Lycos has apparently been the target of spam attacks following the release of their anti-spam deny of service campaign. The BlogBloke reports on this new happening in the anti-spam wars âItâs payback time!
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New software allows recipients of spam to band together to target known websites behind the messages. The idea is to bombard the sites with messages, slowing them down and making them more expensive to run.
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Five billion spam messages flooded the Internet on Wednesday in a realistic-looking pump-and-dump scam that had its intended effect of boosting trading volume for German-based Talktech Telemedia.
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A massive "pump and dump" stock scam spam attack was launched yesterday, sending out as many as 5 billion messages touting a German stock to recipients worldwide.
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Microsoft&#39;s (Nasdaq: MSFT) SenderID technology may not be hitting it off with other technology companies, but the company&#39;s continuing on the anti-spam crusade that it started talking up back in January.
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Spammers may be about to get a taste of their own medicine. A British company is today launching software that it claims will allow computer users to hit back at the mass mailers who clog up our inboxes with
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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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THE spammed can now hit back at the spammers with new software from Lycos called Make Love, Not Spam. The software sits on your PC and when the machine is not in use, it generates traffic on the sites of known