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Spam Evil Is Again On The Rise!

Nov 26th, 2008

Like the evil force in "Lord of The Rings" famous story, spam which was once defeated now has gathered its strength and is on the rise again! Two weeks ago when the command center of spam called McColo, a Web-hosting company that ran sites for several chief spammers, was forced to shut down the world had enjoyed a short moment of victorious air seeing spam sent over the Internet down to 80%. There were lucky days when many people on Earth ...




Facebook Wins $873 Million Judgment Against Spammer

Nov 24th, 2008

Facebook has won $873 million judgment against Adam Guerbuez, a Canadian man who floods the popular online social network with millions of explicit spam messages. It is reported that Guerbuez fooled Facebook's users to provide him with their credentials either by phishing to gain login information or acquiring it from third parties. After gaining access to user's personal profiles, he used software to automatically send out more than 4 million messages advertising many "spammy" products, including marijuana and male enhancement ones. Max ...