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Googlewhack trick used to slip junk mail past spam filters Spammers feel lucky Spam • 6 Nov 08:02	AOL spammer gets two years in the slammer Spam scam sting yields results Spam • 4 Nov 21:07	Irish man rescued after falling for 419 scam After being swindled, man traveled to Ghana to recover funds Spam • 1 Nov 17:59
Virtual! stripper! game! targets! Yahoo! Captcha-busting Trojan warning Spam • 31 Oct 17:33	US smut spam duo jailed for five years apiece Take them down Spam • 15 Oct 11:01	Russian spammer murder hoax exposed Thick Skin yarn punctured Spam • 12 Oct 09:42
This emergency alert has been cancelled by Hotmail More friendly fire in the war on spam Spam • 10 Oct 22:31	Admins accuse Microsoft of Draconian Hotmail cap 'Only 10 recipients at a time, please' Spam • 9 Oct 21:15	Yahoo! Teams! With! eBay! And! PayPal! To! End! Phishing! If you use Yahoo!, eBay, and PayPal. Spam • 6 Oct 01:58
Spammers turn YouTube into spam relay channel Will anyone notice the difference? Spam • 5 Oct 12:42	And now for something completely different: Good news on spam SEC beats up on pump-and-dump junk mail Spam • 4 Oct 23:54	FTC fines three men $330,000 for pushing spyware Slap on the wrist shows that cyber crime pays Spam • 1 Oct 21:11
Brute force attack yields keys to Google's kingdom Spammers eye the Holy Grail Spam • 1 Oct 18:42	ISPs turn blind eye to million-machine malware monster Cablevision and Comcast coddling criminals? Spam • 10 Sep 06:02	Court junks $11m judgment against Spamhaus Return to lower court Spam • 4 Sep 14:36
Spammers debut FDF spam Rising tide as stock markets fall Spam • 13 Aug 10:39	Outlook grim as Cloudmark update crashes email clients Stormy weather Spam • 10 Aug 16:03	Dutch police arrest six in 419 scam Australian victim bilked of $1.5m Spam • 9 Aug 18:03
419-lite scammers target pet lovers How much is that doggy? Spam • 8 Aug 18:27	Fake e-cards signal massive DDoS attack Storm worm's a brewin' Spam • 7 Aug 23:11	Spammer gets 30 years in the slammer Suddenly wishes Viagra was harder to come by Spam • 2 Aug 23:47
Spamford Wallace banished from MySpace Flooded site with a million messages Spam • 27 Jul 21:30	Spammers dump images, switch to PDF files Cat-and-mouse Spam • 23 Jul 10:10	US claims top spam spot American spammers resurgent Spam • 9 Jul 09:12
Turing test challenges spam filters Fuzzy PDF menace Spam • 6 Jul 12:52	'I Go Chop Your Dollar' star arrested 419 spoof turns real Spam • 2 Jul 11:10	DoJ alerts US citizens to spam attack Pesky phishers impersonate keepers of Justice Spam • 29 Jun 13:48
US porn spammers guilty as charged Canned by CAN-SPAM Spam • 26 Jun 01:12	Dutch police arrest 111 West Africans in 419 clampdown Life's a Lottery (scam) Spam • 18 Jun 17:32	Why is Hotmail so bad at spam? Column Tell me why, I don't like Hotmail... Spam • 15 Jun 12:46
Spammer faces 11 years in prison Admits to sending junk mail to 1.2m AOL subscribers Spam • 12 Jun 19:38	Cloudmark takes anti-spam to the edge Content filtering at the network edge to keep spam off the core Spam • 1 Jun 19:51	Spam King arrested in Seattle Grand jury indictments Spam • 31 May 14:56
Tiscali coughs to spam blacklisting after a week without email Updated 'Er...try Hotmail...for another week' Spam • 30 May 10:39	Internet users unfazed by spam: study Are we bovvered? No, we're not Spam • 25 May 10:40	PlusNet blames itself for webmail spamfest Russian connection in hacking investigation Spam • 24 May 11:50

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