Largest Canadian Pharmacy Spammer Spamit Shuts Down
In a rare bit of good news on efforts to reduce the relentless volume of junk e-mail, Spamit has closed its doors, dramatically decreasing global spam volumes, wrote a Cisco researcher in a security blog.
"We don’t often hear about spam getting better," said Henry Stern in a phone call to eWeek, "A spammer shut down voluntarily. They decided they were done."
Spamit was the largest fake pharmacy affiliate program bombarding users over the years with Canadian Pharmacy spam, but it has been recently declining, said Stern. The Canadian Pharmacy Web sites sell prescription drugs without requiring a prescription. While there are thousands of these sites online, experts say most of the drugs shipped to customers are exported from India and China.
