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• Washington Post: 'Résumé Spamming' Brings an Online Backlash
Already frustrated by unwanted sales pitches and suggestive come-ons, e-mail users now face another onslaught, this time from desperate job seekers.
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• Washington Post: E-Mail Opens New Door For Familiar Scam Tactic
The get-rich-quick con, dubbed the "Nigerian Letter Scam" by authorities, was operated out of Toronto and Nigeria from 1994 to 2000 and swindled more than 300 people, including about 20 in the Washington area, out of approximately $20 million, according to law enforcement officials.
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• Washington Post: Making Spam Go Splat
Sick of Unsolicited E-Mail, Businesses Are Fighting Back.
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• Washington Post: Powered by . . . Spam?
How mass e-mail ads fueled a holiday gift craze.
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• Washington Post: Spam's Cost To Business Escalates
The flood of unsolicited messages sent over the Internet is growing so fast that spam may soon account for half of all U.S. e-mail traffic. 2003.03.13
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• washingtonpost.com: Data Attacks Strike Spam Fighters
Ron Guilmette tried to cleanse the Internet of spam. For his good deed, he got himself cleansed from the Internet.
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• Webguardian
A nonprofit Internet watchdog, providing protection and advice for consumers and reducing Internet crime and fraud.
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• Webscreen Technology
Offers filtering appliances with DDoS mitigation features.
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• What is Spam?
Short FAQ explaining email and usenet spam. Offers suggestions on how to reduce the amount of spam received.
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• What to do about Unwanted/Offensive Email
Explains in detail how to track and complain about spam.
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• What Was EBay's E-Mail Motive?
EBay is either a scheming marketing company or an innocent victim of mass paranoia launched by a well-intentioned e-mail it sent to its users. [Wired]
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• Whatis Definition of Denial of Service
Definition plus discussion of various types of DoS attacks and how they work, including Buffer Overflow, SYN, Teardrop and Smurf.
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• When candidates spam
A mass e-mailing by a New Jersey Republican stirs up an online hornet's nest. [Salon 21st]
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• When is email marketing spam?
Like it or not, email is still the best way to reach a mass online audience--and even community sites and online services are willing to use it. [CNET]
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• When You Send Spam to Yourself
Carl Toups usually doesn't blink at unsolicited junk mail in his Hotmail account, but a piece of spam recently caught his eye. [Wired]
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• Which Nigerian Spammer Are You?
Two-page quiz ascertains your spammer personality. Includes an icon with resulting profile.
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• WhiteICE
Provides filtered web-based e-mail accounts and web space.
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• Whois-Details for Blacklisted Spam Domains
List of domains that have been advertised via spam, with name server, registration date, registrant. This list is updated daily.
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• Why Spam Is Bad
A collection of links to help show Internet marketers why spam is harmful to their business and to provide some alternative means of responsible marketing.
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• Wikipedia - Captcha
Explains how captcha features can keep spammers from signing up for certain accounts online, such as email or weblogs. Explains how the system can be circumvented as well.
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• Wikipedia - Spamming
Provides a general overview of the spamming phenomenon. Links to articles which discuss the techniques of spammers on particular media: Internet e-mail, instant messaging, Usenet newsgroups, Web search engines, weblogs, and mobile phone messaging. Another article describes ways of stopping e-mail abuse.
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• Wikipedia - Wikispam
Covers two types of wikispam: advertisements masquerading as articles, and wide-scale external link spamming.
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• Wild Mind
Essays about comment spam and how one blogger is fighting it.
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• Wired - Googlemania: The (Evil) Genius of Comment Spammers
Background of the phenomenon of comment spam and how bloggers responded.
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• Wired: Amy Grant Spams a Sour Note
Jesus preached the gospel of turning the other cheek, but what would he have said about spam?
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• Wired: Antispam Laws: Where Are They?
Nearly 6 million people in 24 states have registered to have telemarketing calls blocked under new do-not-call laws. But that doesn't mean similar laws for spam could ever pass ... or be effective, antispam experts say.
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• Wired: Archive: Fresh Spam for Everyone
Is your spouse dissatisfied with the size of your spam? A brand-new website has made several hundred thousand pieces of unsolicited commercial e-mail available for you to download today.
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• Wired: Axed Intel Man Loses E-Mail Case
Kourosh Kenneth Hamidi remains barred from targeting Intel employees with bulk e-mail.
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• Wired: Candidate: Spam in Every Pot
A supposedly Internet-savvy Republican candidate for governor of California, one of the few states with an anti-spam law, isn't campaigning against unsolicited e-mail -- he's sending it. Bill Jones' campaign sent out thousands of unsolicited e-mails this week, urging California voters to vote for Jones next Tuesday. According to posts in newsgroups and discussion lists, Jones has spammed twice before, once in December and once in January.
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• Wired: China Sweet, Sour on Spam
Delegates at the annual meeting of China's National People's Congress roundly criticized Western systems administrators that are blocking all e-mail from China as a means to stop spam, but they also called for new laws to make sending spam illegal in China.
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• Wired: E-Marketers Rue Address Turnover
Thirty-one percent of Americans change e-mail addresses each year, in part to evade spammers, according to a new study.
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• Wired: FTC: Where Spam Goes to Die
The FTC now has the most complete spam database in the world, a collection of over 20 million missives containing the solutions to all human wants and woes.
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• Wired: Going to Extremes to Fight Spam
On Monday, the two co-founders of AvantGo launched a new spam filter that takes the most drastic anti-spam approach possible: Users only receive e-mail from people on a list of pre-approved senders.
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• Wired: Liverpool: I Wanna Hold Your Spam
A woman in a major British media company recently contacted the company's entire, 30,000-strong staff with an urgent query: "Has anyone got any blu-tack?"
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• Wired: Net Gurus Rally Anti-Spam Forces
The Internet Research Task Force, the closest thing the Internet has to a governing body for all matters technical, inaugurated the Anti-Spam Research Group this week to develop "a taxonomy of the (spam) problem and the proposed solutions."
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• Wired: No Easy Money Suing Spammers
When Ken Pugh sued the Elizabeth Dole for Senate campaign last month for sending him spam, it wasn't money that motivated him.
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• Wired: Not All Asian E-Mail Is Spam
A new great wall is being built, this time across the Internet. Constructed by frustrated systems administrators and intended only to stop spam, the wall could eventually cut off much of the e-mail communications between the East and the West.
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• Wired: Plenty of Spam for the Holidays
Attention, spamees: Don't take your hand off the delete key. Indications are that plenty more spam is on its wa
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• Wired: Spam Confab: Hackers to Rescue?
Hackers from around the world will converge on MIT on Friday to swap intelligence and marshal their collective brainpower for the fight against a seemingly indomitable opponent. This time it's not Microsoft, DirecTV or the Recording Industry Association of America. It's spam.
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• Wired: Spam Masquerades as Admin Alerts
A new breed of pop-up ads is appearing on Microsoft Windows users' computers. The so-called "Messenger spams" have security experts and system administrators scratching their heads and recipients fuming.
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