CNET.com: Is your e-mail watching you?
Watch out--the spam choking your e-mail in-box may be loaded with software that lets marketers track your moves online, and you may not even be aware that you've been bugged. (April 4, 2002)
Newsbytes: AOL Says Spam Case Victory Sets 'Landmark' Precedent
Officials at America Online believe the Internet giant's legal victory over a large "spam" distributor lays the groundwork for other Internet providers to more effectively combat unsolicited e-mail on their own networks, an AOL spokesman said Wednesday. (April 4, 2002)
Wired: The Law Is Going After Spam
Spam and Internet fraud -- the twin plagues of the information age -- are getting stepped-up attention from federal and state agencies that say more joint effort from law enforcement groups is needed to curb the scourge that is online swindling. (April 2, 2002)
CNET.com: Yahoo users fume over "spam" switch
Some Yahoo members on Friday reacted angrily to changes in the Web portal's e-mail marketing practices, comparing the company's revised policy to an open invitation to spam. (March 29, 2002)
MSNBC: Yahoo! sneaks in yet more spam
When Yahoo's instituted a privacy policy change this week, the firm reset all users' preferences so they would receive marketing pitches from the firm. (March 29, 2002)
Newsbytes: Anti-Spam Advocate Wins Big In Small-Claims Court
A small-claims court in Washington state has ordered three direct marketers to pay $1,000 apiece for violating the state?s laws against unsolicited junk e-mail, or "spam." (March 26, 2002)
Wired: Spam Showdown at Battle Creek
The small city of Battle Creek, Michigan, wants to lock up an anti-spam activist who it believes crashed its mail server. Never mind that the town government was using a buggy version of the Lotus Domino e-mail server, and that newer releases have fixed the problem. And never mind that anti-spammers may have been conducting a routine scan for possible sources of bulk e-mail. (March 21, 2002)
Newsbytes: California Law Firm Tests State Spam Law Limits
California's largest law firm is suing e-mail marketer Etracks.com in a case experts say could test the limits of the state's laws designed to curb junk e-mail. (March 15, 2002)
E-Commerce News: FTC Shuts Down 9-11 Spam Scam
The U.S. District Court ordered the immediate shutdown of a Web site owned by a European spam outfit for bilking more than $1 million from customers, Federal Trade Commission officials announced Monday. (March 11, 2002)
Internetnews: FTC Plans Crackdown on 9-11 Spam
"Spam is one of the Internet's dirty little secrets, and it's bad enough when your mom gets targeted with porn stuff and get-rich quick schemes. But the people who prey on the public selling worthless products related to the events of Sept. 11 are among the lowest of the low." (March 7, 2002)
Wired: China Sweet, Sour on Spam
Delegates at the annual meeting of China's National People's Congress roundly criticized Western systems administrators that are blocking all e-mail from China as a means to stop spam, but they also called for new laws to make sending spam illegal in China. (March 6, 2002)
CNET.com: Free speech or campaign spam?
California gubernatorial candidate Bill Jones is back online after his Web-hosting service shut down his campaign Internet site in protest over a mass e-mail that some outraged recipients compared to spam. (March 4, 2002)
Wired: Candidate: Spam in Every Pot
A supposedly Internet-savvy Republican candidate for governor of California, one of the few states with an anti-spam law, isn't campaigning against unsolicited e-mail -- he's sending it. Bill Jones' campaign sent out thousands of unsolicited e-mails this week, urging California voters to vote for Jones next Tuesday. According to posts in newsgroups and discussion lists, Jones has spammed twice before, once in December and once in January. (March 1, 2002)
ZDNet News: Spam--it's worse than ever
Do you need a penis enlargement? How about a cool million bucks, courtesy of a too-good-to-be true deal with the son of one of Nigeria's most powerful families? Anyone with an e-mail account has doubtless received sundry similar pitches. Ranging from the simply annoying to the truly bizarre, spam was bad enough a year ago; it's that much worse today. (March 1, 2002)
VirtualSprockets : Statement on the Recent Bill Jones Campaign Spamming
A statement concerning one of their clients, the Bill Jones for Governor campaign, and their disregard for normal rules of conduct on the Internet by spamming through a Korean open relay server. (February 28, 2002)
Wired: Not All Asian E-Mail Is Spam
A new great wall is being built, this time across the Internet. Constructed by frustrated systems administrators and intended only to stop spam, the wall could eventually cut off much of the e-mail communications between the East and the West. (February 19, 2002)
The Sacramento Bee: 'Spam' scam crackdown
A chain-letter scheme is halted but few see a drop in the onslaught of electronic junk mail. (February 13, 2002)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Deceptive chain e-mails targeted
FTC goes after spam purveyors who peddle dubious schemes. (February 13, 2002)
Internetnews: It's All Perfectly Illegal
The seven werpetrators agreed to settle charges that they were spamming consumers with deceptive chain letters. Financial terms of the settlements were not disclosed. (February 12, 2002)
Newsbytes: Chain-Letter Busts Kick Off FTC Crackdown On Spam
The Federal Trade Commission today launched an unprecedented crackdown against deceptive junk e-mail - or "spam.? The nascent campaign seeks to marry individual enforcement actions against spammers with a consumer outreach and education program involving several regional Internet service provider (ISP) associations. (February 12, 2002)
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