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Earlier Spam stories

Online advertiser pays $200,000 for deceptive claims

When 'free' isn't free

31 Jan 04:40

Spammers dive into Google's lucky dip

Feeling phished?

30 Jan 11:02

Spamford Wallace's MySpace riches come under attack

Analysis The FTC's quest for spam stopping balls

26 Jan 00:24

Anti-spammer fined $60K for DNS lookup 'hack'

Whois also ruled dodgy by North Dakota court

17 Jan 19:05

Spam King Ralsky indicted over stock spam scam

Pump and dump gang raked in millions

4 Jan 12:17

Dutch arrest 14 mules in ABN AMRO scam

Money wired to Russia and Ukraine

Channel Register 20 Dec 01:28

Tracking down the Ron Paul spam botnet

Elephant Viagra

Channel Register 5 Dec 01:34

Yahoo! and! Adobe! sign! ad-packed! PDF! pact!

Acrobat Reader to display 'message from our sponsor'

29 Nov 15:54

Celebrity spam gang whips up a storm

Stealth botnet responsible for huge spam surge

28 Nov 14:11

Al Gore climate change site hacked

Penis pill outrage

27 Nov 15:20

UK punters lose faith in phished brands

Collateral damage

26 Nov 13:41

Googlewhack trick used to slip junk mail past spam filters

Spammers feel lucky

6 Nov 08:02

AOL spammer gets two years in the slammer

Spam scam sting yields results

4 Nov 21:07

Irish man rescued after falling for 419 scam

After being swindled, man traveled to Ghana to recover funds

1 Nov 17:59

Virtual! stripper! game! targets! Yahoo!

Captcha-busting Trojan warning

31 Oct 17:33

US smut spam duo jailed for five years apiece

Take them down

15 Oct 11:01

Russian spammer murder hoax exposed

Thick Skin yarn punctured

12 Oct 09:42

This emergency alert has been cancelled by Hotmail

More friendly fire in the war on spam

10 Oct 2007, 22:31

Admins accuse Microsoft of Draconian Hotmail cap

'Only 10 recipients at a time, please'

9 Oct 2007, 21:15

Yahoo! Teams! With! eBay! And! PayPal! To! End! Phishing!

If you use Yahoo!, eBay, and PayPal.

6 Oct 2007, 01:58

Spammers turn YouTube into spam relay channel

Will anyone notice the difference?

5 Oct 2007, 12:42

And now for something completely different: Good news on spam

SEC beats up on pump-and-dump junk mail

4 Oct 2007, 23:54

FTC fines three men $330,000 for pushing spyware

Slap on the wrist shows that cyber crime pays

1 Oct 2007, 21:11

Brute force attack yields keys to Google's kingdom

Spammers eye the Holy Grail

1 Oct 2007, 18:42

ISPs turn blind eye to million-machine malware monster

Cablevision and Comcast coddling criminals?

10 Sep 2007, 06:02

Court junks $11m judgment against Spamhaus

Return to lower court

4 Sep 2007, 14:36

Spammers debut FDF spam

Rising tide as stock markets fall

13 Aug 2007, 10:39

Outlook grim as Cloudmark update crashes email clients

Stormy weather

10 Aug 2007, 16:03

Dutch police arrest six in 419 scam

Australian victim bilked of $1.5m

9 Aug 2007, 18:03

419-lite scammers target pet lovers

How much is that doggy?

8 Aug 2007, 18:27

Fake e-cards signal massive DDoS attack

Storm worm's a brewin'

7 Aug 2007, 23:11

Spammer gets 30 years in the slammer

Suddenly wishes Viagra was harder to come by

2 Aug 2007, 23:47

Spamford Wallace banished from MySpace

Flooded site with a million messages

27 Jul 2007, 21:30

Spammers dump images, switch to PDF files

Cat-and-mouse

23 Jul 2007, 10:10

US claims top spam spot

American spammers resurgent

9 Jul 2007, 09:12

Turing test challenges spam filters

Fuzzy PDF menace

6 Jul 2007, 12:52

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