» Spam Whacks

Mega Spammer Alan Ralsky and Son-in-Law Indicted Along with Several Other Big-Time Spammers (comments)
Mega spammer Alan Ralsky has been indicted under Federal anti-spamming law, along with ten other spammers involved in Ralsky's operation, including Ralsky's own son-in-law, Scott Bradley ("Oh dad, how could you?) Other spammers charged include Judy Devenow, also of Michigan; James Bragg, of Arizona; California spammers John Brown, William Neil, Anki Neil, James Fite, Francis Tribble; and How Wai John Hui, of Vancouver, Canada and Hong Kong, and Peter Severa of Russia.

Using a Gmail Account in Conjunction with Your AntiSpam Program as the Perfect Spam Folder (This article has 1 comment)
Massive Gmail storage plus the awesome folder view provided by a Gmail account equals the perfect spam folder! If your anti-spam program can forward all detected spam to a separate email address, then you can create your own Gmail spam folder account too! Gmail mail is the perfect way to scan all of your spam for mail that you actually want, because the Gmail email folder view shows you the first sentence of the email along with the subject, making it super easy to determine if the mail is really spam or not without opening it! First, set up a Gmail account (sign up for Gmail at gmail . com here), then forward your spam to it. Now check Gmail mail to easily scan the contents of your spam folder to determine if there is any email you actually want. Here are step-by-step instructions, and a view of our Gmail spam folder account!

Is Spamming Worth It? Ask Robert Soloway - Sitting in a Federal Jail without Bail for Spamming (This article has 4 comments)
Score one for the forces of good, as one of the United States' most notorious spammers, Robert Soloway, was not only arrested this month, but denied bail, so egregious were the charges against him, and, the court felt, the odds of him skipping town to avoid those charges.

The Junk Email that Has it All - Because Sometimes You Just Have to Laugh at Spam (This article has 3 comments)
When you are thinking "Oh, how much I hate spam" (does anybody ever actually think "I want spam"?), and you want to exact some of your own spam revenge, your thoughts may turn to becoming a spam killer. But others vent through more gentile avenues, such as spam haiku, spam poetry or, this, penning the ultimate junk email.

Hormel Loses Law Case Over the Word “Spam” (This article has 4 comments)
In a move which may have surprised nobody more than it surprised canned meat company Hormel, Hormel lost their legal effort to regain control over their trademark "SPAM".

Has Scott Richter Really Stopped Spamming? $27.4million Lawsuit by Infinite Monkeys.com Says “No!” (This article has 2 comments)
Ronald Guilmette and his company, Infinite Monkeys.com, have filed a $27.4 million lawsuit against spam king Scott Richter and his OptInRealBig.com. Richter claims he is no longer a spammer, Ronald Guilmette says it ain't so. Also named in the lawsuit are four of Richter's customers, including Florida-based National Associate Credit Services, Inc..

What to do with All that Stock Spam (This article has 2 comments)
"We have a runner!" "Small cap stock!" "Could DPER.PK be the next Exxon?" If you are sick of getting stock spam - that spam hawking some worthless stock in an effort to drive up the price so that those behind the spammer can cash in and get out, then here are a couple of ways to have fun with that spam.

New O’Reilly “Spam Kings” Book Exposes the Seamy Underbelly of Spam “Email Marketing” and the Yellow Underbellies of Spammers (comments)
Spam Kings takes you on a trip through the world of spam, where you'll meet all kinds of spammers (and even a few antispammers) and learn what makes them tick (I mean in addition to the crack and coffee).

Politics of Spam Makes Strange Bedfellows: The DMA, “Slam Spam”, and the U.S. Justice Department (comments)
On a sidenote to the much ballyhooed crackdown by the Justice Department on dozens of spammers, at least part of the funding for the crackdown came through the Direct Marketing Association's "Operation Slam Spam". The law under which these stings were made, CAN-SPAM, has ...

Dear Internet Patrol: What is Website “Email Address Harvesting”, and How Can I Prevent It? (This article has 8 comments)
The term "address harvesting" refers to the unsavoury practice of finding and copying email addresses from the pages of websites. You know all of those lovely "contact us" webpages which everyone has? Well, spammers just love to pick those tasty little ripe email addresses from the orchard of your website. So here are a few tips which will allow users to contact you through your website, while not allowing your email address to fall into the wrong hands.