Sometime last year, we wrote about the dangers of email broadcasting or rather what it is to be in a friend’s mailing list. Lately, we have seen some of our friends back to that habit of including our email address in a long list of addresses shown in the To: field. It is horrifying to [...]
World’s 10 worst spammers
March 24, 2009 By 1 Comment
About this time last year when we launched this site, we ran a report on the world’s 10 worst spammers. This year we looked at the same roll-call at Spamhaus and the top 10 worst spammers in relation to their ranking last year. Here is a comparison: 1. Canadian Pharmacy (United States) “A long time [...]
Be in a friend’s mailing list and be a spammer’s delight
March 19, 2008 By 2 Comments
No, I don’t refer to joining mailing lists where the email message is customized to reflect the recipient’s identity or the email message is addressed to an aliased egroup. I refer to being in a mailing list of someone, supposedly a friend, who appears to get a kick out of showing that s/he knows many people [...]
World’s top 10 worst spammers
March 19, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Here’s the world’s top 10 worst spammers as at 17 March 2008: 1. Leo Kuvayev / BadCow (Russian Federation) Russian/American spammer. Does “OEM CD” pirated software spam, copy-cat pharmaceuticals, porn spam, porn payment collection, etc. Spams using virus-created botnets and seems to be involved in virus distribution. Partnered with Vlad – aka “Mr. Green” 2. [...]
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