For-Profit Crusade Against Junk Mail
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If the founder of GreenDimes has his way, millions of tons of unwanted mail will go the way of pesky phone solicitations.
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Bill Gates was wrong: Junk e-mail is clogging inboxes faster than ever. In Furthermore.
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A new service for fighting e-mail fraud seeks to tap the wisdom of the Internet community: Anyone will be able to submit suspected scams for others to vote up or down.
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By Jim Hopkins  SAN FRANCISCO -- The tech quandary  for many small businesses isn't about building a better website or when to buy Microsoft's new Vista operating system. It's an old problem managers thought they'd already licked: spam.
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FTC says tracking them down won&#39;t be cheap; rewards of up to $250,000 needed, commission says. WASHINGTON  - Members of Congress have backed a program encouraging &quot;bounty hunters&quot; to track down e-mail spammers.
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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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America OnlineÂ has declared 2004 a "banner year" in its fight against unsolicited commercial e-mail messages, most commonly referred to as spam.
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Meg Whitman describes how eBay, Paypal are combating phony e-mails and Web sites that may ensnare unsuspecting users--and drive away customers.
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It may be the Internet age, yet consumers should expect old-fashioned junk mail to keep clogging their mailboxes. Marketers' spending on direct mail will swell 7.5% to $64 billion next year, according to respected ad forecaster Robert Coen.
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Spam: Death By A Million Paper Cuts  The organization I work for receives 19-20 UCEs (Unsolicited Commercial Email) per second, 1.7-2 million potential UCEs per day, 11.7 million UCEs per week. I only have 13,000 email users. These users were desperate and email for many was unusable. Me and another co-worker had 3 months to implement a plan to get rid of most of it. I had to document every step we took and I had one shot to accomplish this. At the end of that time it had to work and it had to be noticeable.    I am not an expert on spam. However, I have learned many things about UCEs and what can be done to fight it and how to adjust to UCEs' dynamic nature.
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As internet firms are doing all they can to combat junk e-mail, a new form of virtual irritation is emerging.
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An unsolicited marketing message irritates an Edinburgh man and earns its sender a lawsuit -- and a $1,445 fine for damages. Is your inbox a gold mine? By the Associated Press.
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People are being warned about a scam e-mail which uses the US presidential poll to con them out of their money. A junk e-mail invites people to dial a premium rate number to express their
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America Online is preparing to offer free, Web-based e-mail to the general public in an effort to counter mounting competition from Yahoo, MSN and Google.
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By Anick Jesdanun  Spammers have something new in their bag of tricks.  Those ubiquitous Viagra ads have been disguising themselves as e- mail newsletters, the kind you get to find out the latest airline deals or keep up with your fantasy football team.
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Duff note Stock spammers have abandoned PDF files and image spam with a new campaign featuring MP3 files.â¦
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NEW YORK America Online says spammers may be giving up on sending junk e-mail to its subscribers. A spokesman for Dulles-based AOL says the number of spam messages they delete is down from last year.