FBI: Expect more spam prosecutions
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U.S. Internet users should expect a growing number of prosecutions for sending spam and related activities, such as creating botnets, officials with two U.S. law enforcement organizations said Thursday.
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Agency says it may uncover additional incidents in which botnets have been used to facilitate criminal activity.
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Plus: Most email over holidays will be spam. [News.com Extra]
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The Justice Department has made a series of arrests against purveyors of e-mail "spam" as part of a nationwide crackdown against Internet scam artists, a marketing group said Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON - The Justice Department has made a series of arrests against purveyors of e-mail "spam" as part of a nationwide crackdown against Internet scam artists, a marketing group said Wednesday.    The Direct Marketing Association, which has put up $500,000 to help the FBI and Justice Department with the probe, said in a statement that the arrests stem from a yearlong investigation intended to "engender greater trust and comfort in legitimate e-mail communications."   Details of "Operation Slam Spam" were expected to be announced Thursday, according to the marketing group and a federal law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity...
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All spams must be of regulation size and weightâ¦ The European Commission called for stronger action against spammers and spy ware merchants today and said it may bring in further legislation to combat the problem.â¦
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Spammers will find that the money to be made by bombarding computers with junk e-mails is not worth the risk. A Virginia jury sent a sobering message last week to the unscrupulous purveyors of junk e-mail.
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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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If anything's been lacking in US government agencies' ongoing fight against malicious Internet use, it's a good, old-fashioned public awareness campaign. Yesterday, in an effort to turn up the volume and give local TV news writers a more tangible vocabulary for malicious users, the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced interim results of its ongoing efforts to track down and arrest suspected "bot-herders."
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US enforcement agencies have arrested or charged dozens of people with crimes related to junk e-mail, identity theft and other online scams in recent weeks, according to several people involved in the actions.
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To: TECHNOLOGY EDITORS  Contact: U.S. Department of Justice, +1-202-514-2008, TDD: +1- 202-514-1888   WASHINGTON, June 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Department of Justice has recently become aware of fraudulent spam e-mail messages claiming to be from DOJ.
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If you can&#39;t stop &#39;em, sue &#39;em. That&#39;s what Microsoft has announced they are doing to seven spammers who are accused of sending unrequested e-mails with visible pornography to hundreds of thousands of internet users.
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By Cynthia McMullen  Last week, I received nearly 700 e-mails, give or take a few spam.  That's a joke; spam accounts for nearly 90 percent of the e-mail I receive at work. And I don't mean the Hormel meat product, Spam, for whom unsolicited commercial mail was named.
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The US is responsible for most of the spam e-mails that fill up computer inboxes, says a report.
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The tech behemoth targets more spammers for lawsuits.
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Junk e-mail continued to land in mailboxes around the world Thursday, despite the arrest a day earlier of a man described as one of the world's most prolific spammers.
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An advanced spamming technique could push the volume of unwanted e-mail to new heights in coming months, straining the integrity of the online communication system, according to several top experts who monitor the activity of spam gangs around the world.