When Microsoft slayed the notorious botnet Rustock, which had been sending as much as 40 percent of all spam worldwide, in March 2011, it forced the volume of spam into a decline from which it has ...

Last Friday, I started getting bounced messages from compuserve and other hosts for emails I had never sent. Some investigation showed that a spammer (who I will refer to as Tiny, his first email was ...

Email is the single most effective marketing tool for many businesses -- and being blocked as an email spammer can be their biggest headache. It's getting more difficult to get into inboxes, as the ...

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A new technique for sending email spam has become very popular with cyber-criminals, said Cisco this week, following an investigation from its Talos and OpenDNS Umbrella security teams. In the early ...

Spammers face a battle to deliver their messages. First they need a revenue model that reaps rewards. Next they need a never-ending supply of valid e-mail addresses with as much qualifying data as ...

Google's Gmail spam filters may block the bulk of spam from hitting your inbox, but according to one researcher it won't filter spam from a spoofed @gmail.com address. No one likes spam and for the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. TJ McCue is Seattle-based and covers tech & productivity tools. Dec 31, 2019, 05:10pm EST Dec 10, 2021, 09:42am EST This article ...

My inbox is a strange and magical place. Earlier today, somebody wrote to let me know that a Togolese prince wants to give me a cool $10 million. I could definitely use the money. Shortly after I got ...

Robert Alan Soloway, 27, is charged with mail fraud, wire fraud, e-mail fraud, aggravated identity theft, and money laundering. Prosecutors said he made $773,000 from his business, Newport Internet ...

How much spam is out there? It’s a mind-numbing, mailbox-choking deluge of unsolicited advertisements. The average American now gets spammed more than 110 times per week. Last year, 261 billion pieces ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Email is the single most effective marketing tool for many businesses — and being blocked as an email spammer can be their biggest ...