This is interesting! In a media advisory the US Federal Trade Commission, FTC, announces a cross-border initiative involving the FTC, Assistant U.S. Attorneys, Canadian Competition Bureau, and the Attorneys General of Florida, North Carolina, and Texas. The FTC also will release details of a report to Congress titled Effectiveness and Enforcement of the CAN-SPAM Act. […]
FBI busts spam king Alan Ralsky
Now official news! Last week the unsealing of warrants revealed that agents in September seized computers, laptops, financial records and disks from the 8,000-square-foot home of Alan M. Ralsky. The $750,000 West Bloomfield mini-mansion was built off profits from the 100 million electronic offers for everything from Botox to mortgages that Ralsky sends every day. […]
Attorney General Tom Reilly Shuts down Spam King Leo Kuvayev
10/15 2005 – It isn’t easy being a spam king these days. The other day reports came in that spam king #1, Alan Ralsky is in bad trouble. Todays anti-spam news are even more promising in some ways. According to the official website of Massachusetts Attorney General Tom Reilly, spam king #2 Leo Kuvayev and […]
OptInRealBig spammer files for bankrupcy protection
03/30 2005 – Is this a small victory for the antispam community? From DenverPost.com (and now gone): E-mail marketer Scott Richter fought lawman Eliot Spitzer, but he’s knuckling under to the world’s richest man, Bill Gates. Richter’s company, Westminster-based OptInRealBig.com, has filed for bankruptcy protection in Denver. The company cited a costly legal battle with […]
Spammers! Take a look at what the Koreans are doing
10/21 2004 – I only see a fragment of all the thousands of spam messages I receive each day. About 99% of them are transfered directly into my Junk folder and deleted every other day. But of the maybe 50 or so junk messages that doesn’t get caught by the Mail.app junk filter, there is […]
Spam Poison – fighting e-mail harvesters
05/07 2004 – Spam Poison is a site set up for one purpose only: To atract the spambots used by spammers for harvesting any trace of e-mail addresses found on blogs and websites. The idea is by no way new, we have linked to pages with randomly created e-mail addresses, but Spam Poison uses a […]
Korean spam still tastes the best
04/27 2004 – Evereone reading this site knows how I feel about spam and the scumbag spammers who fill my mail system and use up valuable bandwidth. It all boils down to a distinct feeling pretty close to hatred. Still, there is something special about Korean spam. The cartoon style, the fact that I really […]
Over 30,000 bounces in 6 hours!
Tonight my mailbox exploded. When I went over to check the morning mail I had over 30,000 unread mail admin warning messages aboutn unknown senders. Yup. Somebody has once again used my domain for sending unsolcited mail. Ironically, this time with the titles ”STOP SPAM IN ITS TRACKS”, ”Get Rid of SPAM For GOOD” and […]
Someone is spamming from spoofed lindqvist.com addresses
10/07 2003 – Is there something more awful than to open up your inbox just to see it cluttered with mails titled Returned mail: User unknown from senders like Mail Delivery Subsystem? That’s what’s happening to me right now. Someone is using my domain to send out v.i.a.g.r.a spam to a whole bunch of aol.com […]
Did you get spam today? It was probably Windows powered.
Where you heavily spammed by the new Windows viruses today? Well, you aren’t alone. Milllions of mails with the same 9 subjects have been sent out through Sobig.F infected computers, that now have become virtual spam relay hosts. And if that wasn’t enough, mal-configured anti virus software send out notifications that our email addresses have […]