Pin Itemailprint Paula Chase died two years ago of nearly untreatable scleroderma, but her email account is apparently alive and not-so-well. Paula’s children have been getting slammed by a slew of spammy emails from their dead mother’s account. They’re unable to stop it, and every other day another email from the hacker hits their inboxes. [...]
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Sanford Wallace, the man known as the “Spam King”, has turned himself in to police after being indicted for devising a nefarious plan that sent over 27 million unsolicited junk messages to Facebook users. Wallace, 43, surrendered to FBI agents to face 11 counts of fraud, intentional damage to a protected computer, and criminal contempt [...]
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Think those pop-ups are harmless? Obviously, you haven’t seen the unicorn yet. Luckily, Freddie Wong is back to show us the dangers of pop-ups and internet spam. And unicorns. By the way, you might want to duck. Watch more Viral Videos here Incoming search terms:internet pop upsinternet pop ups virusinternet spamspam pop upsSpamming popups
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Be careful, Facebookers. There’s another scam spreading like wildfire on the popular social networking site tonight. The scam involves Italian journalist Marika Fruscio, claiming that she accidentally showed her breasts on Italian TV and wants you to click on the link in order to see the slip. Do NOT click on the link, however. You’ll [...]
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Daniel Balsam has done two things that most of us have probably dreamed of doing at some point in our lives. He quit his job AND he’s making a living suing e-mail spammers. Balsam was had a career in marketing about eight years ago, when he received the straw that broke the camel’s back…an e-mail [...]
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Finally…a lawsuit we are happy to report on. We get so much spam from Tagged, it’s ridiculous. Now, social networking site Tagged.com has been sued by the State of New York for “deceptive e-mail marketing practices and invasion of privacy.” New York’s Attorney General, Andrew Cuomo, says that Tagged illegally tries to attract new members [...]
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Mmm….SPAM. There’s actually nothing yummy about it, in fact, it can be down-right annoying. Now Google is offering us a nostalgic look back on 2008, the Year in Spam. You see, in November of last year, a large source of the world’s spam, the McColo network, was taken down. [...]
