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You Need to Read this Grand Letter with a Momentous Message about Texhoma Energy

There is a lot of talk and questions going around about the newest stock spam for Texhoma Energy – the ones with the subject line of “You Neeed to Read this Grand Letter” or “Momentous Message”. The bottom line – ignoreit.

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Hormel Loses Law Case Over the Word “Spam”

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”.

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Has Scott Richter Really Stopped Spamming? $27.4million Lawsuit by Infinite Monkeys.com Says “No!”

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..

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The “This is Spam” Button is Not an Unsubscribe Button! If You Asked for the Email, Don’t Hit “This is Spam”!

The “this is spam” button is not an unsubscribe button! The “this is spam” button is a “whack this sender because they sent me this email without permission” button.

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Spammers Use Google URLs in Spam to Trick People

There has been a recent increase in the number of spammers who are using Google URLs in their spam in an effort to trick people. They way they do this is to camoflage their URL so that it looks like a Google URL. After all, nearly everyone knows, recognizes, and trusts Google. How sinister could clicking on something which appears to be a Google search result be?

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What to do with All that Stock Spam

“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.

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When Spam Gets Cute

We have no idea what this spam says, but it sure is cute!

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Massive Lockergnome Spam Look-a-Like Campaign! Lockergnome “Spam” Joe Job Implicates Apple’s Mail Servers!

Lockergnome is being spoofed in a massive spam campaign which appears to be coming through Apple’s own mail servers! The spam includes fake confirmations, and actual Lockergnome newsletters.

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“Osama Bin Laden Discovered Dead” CNN Newsflash Really Virus Laden Spam

Email claiming to be a CNN newsflash with the headline “Osama Bin Laden Discovered Dead” is making the rounds. It contains a file called “photo+article.zip”. Don’t open it!

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Spammer Fined Millions, Decides to Become Anti-Spam Consultant Instead – Ryan Pitylak Goes Straight?

If you have ever received mortgage spam, you’ve probably been spammed by Ryan Pitylak. Now following lawsuits against him by Microsoft and the Texas AG, Pitylak says he’s going straight and doing anti-spam consulting.

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Black Frog Attempts to Take Blue Frog’s Place with Okopipi

A new Black Frog anti-spam model, based more than loosely on the defunct Blue Frog service, is being set up over at Okopipi. Will this one succeed? And will it be more ethical? We think that the answer to both is “no”.

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Take Back the Net – Secure Your Computer!

Secure your computer, and take back the net! At least one in every three PCs has been compromised and is being used by spammers and phishers as part of their zombie computer “botnets”. And the owners don’t even know! Secure your computer for free. We tell you how!

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Blue Frog Croaks as Blue Security Closes it’s Anti-Spam Program in Wake of Relentless Attacks from Spammers

Blue Security and their controversial Blue Frog program suffered a fatal blow when Blue Security CEO Eran Reshef concluded that the cost to the Internet of their ongoing battle with spammer PharmaMaster, and possibly others, was too high.

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Blue Frog “Do Not Spam” Email List Stolen and Spammed

It was inevitable. Blue Frog, the “anti-spam” company which tries to get spammers to stop spamming by spamming the webforms of spammers who spam Blue Frog’s customers, had their “do not spam” email list stolen by spammers, and now that list of Blue Frog customers is getting spammed.

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Spam King Alan Ralsky in Custody, Spam Network in Jeopardy

Word on the street has it that Alan Ralsky, the so-called Spam King, has been taken into custody by the Department of Justice (DOJ), where they are attempting to put the squeeze on him to have him give up all his spammer cronies and their spamming networks.