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Getting Revenge on Spammers

Sep 18 2008 - 10:00am by geeksugar
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Getting Revenge on Spammers Have you ever wanted to reply to a spammer, not to ask him how his life came to this or did he think that this is what he would be when he grew up, but just to taunt him? A writer for the Boston Globe did just that; when a spammer emailed him, promising him 20 percent of some fake company's profits for just the exchange of his bank account numbers (what a deal!), he decided to have fun with spam. He emailed the spammer back, playing along for a bit, and got into a pretty funny volley, with gems from the spammer like, "In my last email i ask you to provide me your credit card number and the limit.
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Sending Spam Emails Could Land You in Jail

Apr 30 2008 - 7:00am by geeksugar
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Sending Spam Emails Could Land You in Jail As much as spam emails totally suck when they make their way to your inbox - especially ones like these - I can honestly say I was completely shocked when I read this story on USA Today. A man from Colorado has been arrested for sending hundreds of thousands of spam e-mails. His sentence?
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Valentine's Day Spam Emails Have Started Rolling In

Jan 24 2008 - 9:02am by geeksugar
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Valentine's Day Spam Emails Have Started Rolling In Just when I thought my tough and mighty Google gods would keep my Gmail account free from love struck spammers luring unsuspecting email users to visit malicious websites — what do I get in my email? Emails similar to the"ILOVEYOU" worm email, that infected ten percent of all computers connected to the Internet and caused around $5.5 billion in damages! Ok, I'll fess up, the emails did arrive in my spam folder, fortunately, which was a giant red flag to begin with.

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