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Facebook awarded $711 million from spammer
Spamford Wallace ordered to pay out 30 October 2009 10:53 GMT
It's been revealed how much money Facebook has been awarded in damages over a recent anti-spam case against internet "marketer" Sanford - or as he's known Spamford - Wallace.

Facebook filed the anti-spamming case in February after Wallace accessed people's...
TwitBlock cans spammers on Twitter
Uses algorithm to block dodgy followers 14 August 2009 10:09 GMT
A website has launched which claims to be able to identify spammers which follow you on Twitter. Using an algorithm which includes followers, spammy words and how the person tweets, among other things, Twitblock allocates points as to whether the profile is likely to be...
Twitter founder warns over "get followers fast!" websites
Could lead to account hacks 11 August 2009 10:19 GMT
Twitter founder @ev has issued a warning to Twitter users over those dodgy-looking "get followers fast!" websites. He's advising people to avoid them, as they can leads to accounts getting "phished, hacked, or even suspended".

Like any other web service, as...
Spam on the increase
After a brief reprieve 26 November 2008 16:37 GMT
A couple of weeks ago, an American ISP called McColo was shut down after accusations that it was helping spammers send out junk mail including online fraud and child pornography.

It was shut down and suddenly the amount of spam on the Internet slumped by a...
Facebook wins $870 million from spammer
Not planning to distribute it among those who were spammed 25 November 2008 13:59 GMT
A spammer has been ordered to pay social networking site Facebook, over $870 million in damages for bombarding the site's members with millions of emails about sex products and drugs.

Canadian Adam Guerbuez, of Montreal, and his company, Atlantis Blue Capital,...
Spam down by 75% as rogue server crashes
McColo knocked offline with immediate effects 13 November 2008 17:34 GMT
An American ISP was knocked offline earlier this week after several internet security companies alleged that it was helping spammers send out junk mail including online fraud and child pornography.

McColo has apparently been being watched for several years by...
FBI says phishing on the up
Costing the nation tens of millions of dollars 17 October 2008 17:00 GMT
It's happening on both sides of the Atlantic.

Just last week, we reported that the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has issued a warning explaining how phishing gangs are using the turmoil in the financial world to extract valuable information from consumers....
Virgin Media email under siege
Tens of thousands cut off due to spam attack 13 October 2008 10:33 GMT
Virgin Media customers were cut off for 4 days with little or no access to their email as the company came under attack by spammers.

According to the Beeb, the spam problem affected a company which processes messages delivered through the Virgin.net platform....
Orange tops spam shame list
More rubbish in their inboxes than customers with other ISPs 11 August 2008 11:03 GMT
According to a new survey, Orange customers are suffering from spam bombardment.

The research from ClearMyMail has led to the compiling of a chart based on how much spam customers from the UK's top ISPs receive.

And Orange has come top of the list.
UK top target for spammers
We get 25% of global total of Nigerian spam emails 1 July 2008 13:40 GMT
It seems the UK is being singled out and targeted by money scams in spam emails, many of which come from Nigeria.

UK surfers receive nearly a quarter of the global total of Nigerian spam emails, says a new survey from McAfee.

The security specialist...
New advice in battle against spam
Make mincemeat out of spam 1 July 2008 10:24 GMT
New guidelines have been published to help the fight against that most ubiquitous of cyber pests, the spammer.

The Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group has compiled a list of best practices which it is sending to ISPs.

They include recommendations...
BT customers have email blocked by Yahoo
Security upgrade causes messaging mayhem 14 May 2008 16:54 GMT
Thousands of BT customers faced email meltdown after a Yahoo security update went wrong.

The glitch affected customers who use their own domain names to send email.

Yahoo, which runs email servers for BT, put into place anti-spamming measures which...
MySpace wins $230m judgement against spammers
Record fine for Spamford Wallace and partner 14 May 2008 13:10 GMT
An American court has made a landmark ruling in favour of MySpace in a case that will send shivers through the spamming community.

US District Judge Audrey Collins has awarded MySpace a record $230m in a case against two US-based spammers.

Sanford...
Spam attackers target GTA IV fans
Some competition prizes are too good to be true 2 May 2008 9:50 GMT
With copies of the game flying off shelves faster than a speeding car, there are plenty of people out there who haven't been able to get a copy of GTA IV.

And now spammers are targeting these fans.

According to VNU, spam is filling mailboxes offering...
Office of Fair Trading spams kids
But only to teach them a lesson! 19 February 2008 12:01 GMT
The Office of Fair Trading launched a new scheme to warn the UK's youth about the dangers of replying to spam text messages.

The organisation sent thousands of mock SMS spam messages to people aged between 18 and 24 as part of Scams Awareness Month.
90% of email sent in June was spam
Spam-tastic monthly stats 2 July 2007 11:12 GMT
SoftScan announced today that spam levels are back up in the nineties, with 90.06% of email scanned during June classified as spam.

Spam levels fluctuated throughout the month and some days saw levels drop to 86%, but SoftScan concludes that the most likely...
Yahoo Photos closes, Microsoft to buy Yahoo
Yahoo encourages users to switch to Flickr, Microsoft up for buying Yahoo 4 May 2007 15:36 GMT
Thousands of photo sharing users will have to move their photos from Yahoo's Photo service because the company has said that it is closing its doors.

"The strains of running two photo sharing sites has always seemed impractical", one industry insider told us....
UK Company launch 100% NO-SPAM guarantee
Money back if one gets through 4 April 2007 10:46 GMT
Fancy never receiving spam again? Well one UK company is so confident that its software will block all spam to your inbox that if you ever do receive a piece of spam then it will give you your money back for the life of your contract with them.

Coming out of...
BT launches new service to tackle spam head on
80 per cent of emails on the Internet are spam and BT is having none of it 13 October 2006 18:37 GMT
BT has said it is to take a pioneering role in the global battle against spam by implementing the world's first fully-automated "spam buster" system to track down and tackle professional spammers and "botnet"-infected customers on the BT broadband network.

According...
Three men arrested for spreading infected spam
Police suspect that thousands of computers were infected by the malware 28 June 2006 12:53 GMT
Two British and one Finnish men have been arrested on suspicion of wreaking havoc with computer viruses.

The three computer programmers have targeted UK businesses since 2005, infecting thousands of computer worldwide via spam emails carrying virus attachment.
Court judgement could mean the end of spam mail
A man in the UK has won damages from a company that repeatedly sent him email spam, possibly spelling the end of spam mail in the future 28 December 2005 11:11 GMT
A man in the UK has won damages from a company that repeatedly sent him email spam, possibly spelling the end of spam mail in the future.

Nigel Roberts, who lives in Alderney in the Channel Islands, took action against Media Logistics UK over junk emails in his...
1 in 5 Internet shopper tempted by spam
10 December 2004 18:06 GMT
According to a report published today more than a quarter of internet users have bought software through spam emails and in the UK 1 in 5 have bought software after reading junk mail.

The six country, 6,000 respondent survey that asked users about their attitudes...