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		<title>Telemarketers scamming Australians about the Do Not Call Register</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Unscrupulous telemarketers are offering to list consumers’ phone numbers on the Do Not Call Register for a fee, according to the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA). ‘The Do Not Call Register is a free service provided by the Australian Government,’ said ACMA Chairman, Chris Chapman, who warned consumers not to provide any personal identification [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spamwatchers.com/telemarketers-scamming-australians-about-the-do-not-call-register/</link>
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		<title>Photo attached spam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In our earlier post, we reported about &#8220;shortened url links&#8221; spam. Another form of &#8220;shortened&#8221; spam has been flooding our mailbox during the last few days. These are the emails with subject &#8220;Your private photo attached&#8221; &#8212; with attached zip files. No, we don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s on those zip files. We really don&#8217;t care even [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spamwatchers.com/photo-attached-spam/</link>
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		<title>Shortened hyperlinks spam on the rise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In its July 2010 MessageLabs Intelligence Report, Symantec reported that the percentage of spam containing shortened hyperlinks has increased significantly over the last year. The report said that spam containing shortened hyperlinks hit a one day peak of 18 percent, or 23.4 billion spam emails, on April 30, 2010 doubling last year&#8217;s peak levels when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spamwatchers.com/shortened-hyperlinks-spam-on-the-rise/</link>
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		<title>Spammers use World Cup fever to score</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Australian Communications and Media Authority is warning people to beware of spammers trying to cash in on World Cup fever. The ACMA has reports of various scams purporting to be linked to the 2010 FIFA World Cup tournament that offer substantial cash prizes. If recipients attempt to claim the prize they are asked to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spamwatchers.com/spammers-use-world-cup-fever-to-score/</link>
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		<title>“Spam SMS” boosts fight against spam: ACMA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Australian Communications and Media Authority is launching its new reporting tool “Spam SMS” which provides Australians with a quick and easy way to report spam SMS by forwarding messages received to 0429 999 888. The ACMA will launch “Spam SMS” at 11 am on Wednesday 9 June at the Phoenix Youth Centre in Footscray. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spamwatchers.com/%e2%80%9cspam-sms%e2%80%9d-boosts-fight-against-spam-acma/</link>
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		<title>How to be contacted online the spam-free way</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Up to now, we still see people displaying their email addresses in their blog posts. And these include columnists of major news sites which we find very disappointing. The practice of displaying email addresses in web pages is an open invitation to spammers who use spambots which crawl on webpages to harvest anything that looks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spamwatchers.com/how-to-be-contacted-online-the-spam-free-way/</link>
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		<title>How did this email bypass my Gmail spam filter?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you look at the image on this post, you will notice the following: 1. The subject line and the body of the message contain words, mostly English words, which have been split like: lifes tyle for lifestyle refri geran t for refrigerant chast en for chasten &#8230; and other cut up words. 2. It [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spamwatchers.com/how-did-this-email-bypass-my-gmail-filter/</link>
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		<title>Virgin Mobile undertakes to train staff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Virgin Mobile offered this month an enforceable undertaking to develop comprehensive training programs for its staff and to re-examine its email marketing process following an investigation by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) into an alleged breach of the Spam Act. The company also undertook to pay the ACMA $22,000 for the alleged violation. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spamwatchers.com/virgin-mobile-undertakes-to-train-staff/</link>
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		<title>Australia&#8217;s Do Not Call Register now three years old</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), Australia&#8217;s regulator for broadcasting, the internet, radiocommunications and telecommunications, today issued a call to those who registered their telephone numbers with the Do Not Call Register (DNCR) in 2007 to re-register. Registrations for the Do Not Call Register are valid for three years. Anyone who signed up when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spamwatchers.com/australias-do-not-call-register-now-three-years-old/</link>
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		<title>Fighting Online Fraud</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Australasian Consumer Fraud Taskforce is currently running (1 &#8211; 7 March 2010) its annual scams education and awareness campaign. This news bulletin is a public service of SPAMWATCHERS.COM to assist in creating awareness of online consumer frauds and scams. You should be aware of the following more common online scams in order to protect [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spamwatchers.com/fighting-online-fraud/</link>
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