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    Outstanding!

    http://www.informationweek.com/inter...leID=199800077

    Robert Alan Soloway, 27, the owner of Newport Internet Marketing Corp. of Seattle, is looking at five counts of identity theft, mail fraud, wire fraud, fraud in connection with electronic mail, and money laundering. If convicted on all the charges, he could face up to 75 years in prison.

    Excellent!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Giskard View Post
    http://www.informationweek.com/inter...leID=199800077

    Robert Alan Soloway, 27, the owner of Newport Internet Marketing Corp. of Seattle, is looking at five counts of identity theft, mail fraud, wire fraud, fraud in connection with electronic mail, and money laundering. If convicted on all the charges, he could face up to 75 years in prison.

    Excellent!
    Yes, and they say we will actually see a drop in our junk email, internet wide, because of this!

    I always wanted to put a face to who was responsible for all the spam and junk and fraud emails.

    scottyj

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    Maybe - but I am firmly convinced that the largest chunk of internet spam is coming from Zombie computers, clueless owners with unsecured machines that have been taken over by trojans and spybots and who knows what else, sitting on cable modems (high speed pipes) that are just left connected all day and night, with who knows what running in the background, listening to IRC and other places where the zombie army gets its marching (or spamming) orders. If one SPAMMER goes to jail, it just means someone else takes charge of these machines.
    I've read plenty of articles talking about this underground technology. If the cable companies actually managed their users and disconnected the infected machines that were mass uploading emails, THEN you might see a drop in spam.

    And the whole concept of non-anonymity on the web is as big a can of fish as free speech ... slippery slope, hell, its coated in molybdenum grease!


    Quote Originally Posted by scott fitlin View Post
    Yes, and they say we will actually see a drop in our junk email, internet wide, because of this!

    I always wanted to put a face to who was responsible for all the spam and junk and fraud emails.

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    Is spam a problem anymore?

    I have none. If I get offers, sales pitches, etc. it's because I made contact and accepted their conditions. My computer guy keeps me clean. Anyone who gets spam should have a computer guy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JBLRaiser View Post
    I have none. If I get offers, sales pitches, etc. it's because I made contact and accepted their conditions. My computer guy keeps me clean. Anyone who gets spam should have a computer guy.
    Actually, thats a very simplistic view of the problem. The truth is you probably don't get much SPAM because you have no real web presence.

    Got any web pages of your own? Own a domain somewhere? Do any real computer tech business? Need to be available for customers to reach you online? can you afford to loose any REAL emails by cutting off SPAM (false positives). Or are you just mostly an end user and surfer? When did you first start using the internet?

    It seems to be hit or miss who has SPAM problems - but currently I get around 30-40 SPAMS daily in the spam bin at gmail, maybe a 4-6 in my yahoo account, and probably a dozen in my cox.net account (which is where my personal domains forward to). I do not answer SPAMS, I would buy from an unsolicited email, and I do NOT have a high visibility anymore. My SPAM goes into a dedicated SPAM folder for each of those services, but I still need to actually look at the emails in the SPAM bin to be sure nothing went there by mistake.

    But I'm lucky, relatively speaking - I know folks who get hundreds of spams a day and also do NOT reply to SPAM or buy from SPAM. They hate the junk as much as I did - and would never fund a advertiser who spams.

    Its not me, nor my fault - but perhaps some of the folks I have dealt with in the past leaked their mail lists to someone who sold it to the spammers. Thats generally how it REALLY works. I know at least one mailing list I used to be on doesn't protect their archives from the spiders that Spammers use to sniff for new customers ... and who knows about the others (Lansing list is great, BTW - your real email address just doesn't show up publicly here unless you post it yourself).
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    Quote Originally Posted by hjames View Post
    Got any web pages of your own? Own a domain somewhere? Do any real computer tech business? Need to be available for customers to reach you online? can you afford to loose any REAL emails by cutting off SPAM (false positives). Or are you just mostly an end user and surfer? When did you first start using the internet?

    It seems to be hit or miss who has SPAM problems - but currently I get around 30-40 SPAMS daily in the spam bin at gmail, maybe a 4-6 in my yahoo account, and probably a dozen in my cox.net account (which is where my personal domains forward to).
    Heather,

    You probably know this, but spamassassin is quite good, ie. JBL quality.

    http://spamassassin.apache.org/

    Best,

    John
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    Dearly Beloved, I am writing to request your able assistance in the transfer of $55 million US...

    Spamsters and scamsters are a plague on mankind. I appreciate everything being done by the good people on this forum to combat them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by John Nebel View Post
    You probably know this, but spamassassin is quite good
    I would need a body count in order to determine its effectiveness...
    Quote Originally Posted by Steve Schell View Post
    Spamsters and scamsters are a plague on mankind.
    That they are.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Steve Schell View Post
    Dearly Beloved, I am writing to request your able assistance in the transfer of $55 million US...
    i had one variation of that scam try me for some 350 million bucks.i dont think id get out of bed for a measley 55 mil

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    Quote Originally Posted by jim campbell View Post
    i had one variation of that scam try me for some 350 million bucks.i dont think id get out of bed for a measley 55 mil
    I've gotten that email, from African, to Nigerian citizens, telling me they want to deposit hundreds of millions of dollars in my bank, at least twice a week. Still getting them, too.

    I get emails alerting me to the fact that I've won the UK Lottery at least once a week too! And to collect all I have to do is provide them with my bank account information, and the money will be deposited in my bank!

    So, according to my emails, I must be a billionaire?
    scottyj

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    my point exactly,55 mil is an insult

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    Quote Originally Posted by jim campbell View Post
    my point exactly,55 mil is an insult
    Yeah, but you never know when you might need some coffee money!

    scottyj

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