Tag: spam
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VB stops spammer in his tracks. A stark reminder of the ingenuity of spammers was received by VB ‘s web team last month thanks to a brief incident involving the VB web server. Suspicions of nefarious activity were first aroused when a significantly large number of emails began to overwhelm the email server. On inspection,…
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Massive lawsuit brought against spam harvesters
Harvesting detection project aims to prosecute address abusers. A community project dedicated to gathering information on the collection of email addresses for spamming purposes has brought a lawsuit in a Virginia court against the as-yet-unidentified spammers who fell into their traps. The Project Honey Pot system was set up by Utah-based anti-spam firm Unspam Technologies…