Source: Opt-In News
While staying at home in Tampa Bay, Florida with her two children, Laura Betterly claims she will make $200,000.00 this year by sending commercial email messages to millions. According to Betterly her company offers permission-based email because they allow subscribers to unsubscribe. Her belief is that this option makes the practice legitimate.
Source: The Guardian
reaper: Spam blah blah Scam
"If a computer is online it can be a target for messenger spam. The ads enter through a loophole in Windows, even if the user is not downloading files from a Web site. Traditional e-mail spam can be ignored, at least until it's time to clear out the in-box. But messenger spam is more aggressive. " - CBC Online - Full Article.
A prime example of spyware, an issue direly in need of attention.
Source: Island packet
reaper: I hope this will open the door for other suits of this nature
SEATTLE (AP) - An Oregon man was ordered Friday to pay nearly $100,000 in the first case brought under Washington's tough law against "spam" e-mails.
Attorney General Christine Gregoire's office estimates that Jason Heckel, 28, of Salem, sent as many as 20,000 unsolicited e-mails to Washington residents in 1998, trying to sell a $39.95 booklet called "How to Profit from the Internet."
Source: Wired.com
Users of SpamNet, a popular peer-to-peer unsolicited e-mail filtering service, had grown accustomed to virtually junk-free inboxes.
So when spam suddenly started pouring in last week, SpamNet users weren't very happy.
Some even began to suspect that SpamNet was nothing more than a scam intended to gather e-mail addresses that could then be sold to spammers.
Source: CNet News
Have you helped a spammer today?
According to operators of spam-filtering lists, an alarming number of people are unwittingly helping junk mailers shuttle spam, or unsolicited bulk e-mail. Those unassuming victims are running software meant to allow multiple connections over a LAN (local area network) to the Internet through a single line, or what's known as proxy servers.
On Thursday, Gov Gray Davis signed a bill that would prohibit companies from spamming mobile phones and pagers with unwanted text messages. The law, sponsored by Assemblyman Tim Leslie, R-Tahoe City, goes into effect in January. Davis said he endorsed the plan because he didn't want unsolicited messages on mobile phones to reach the same level of mayhem that spam e-mails have.
Read the rest of the article right here folks. News.com
Source: CNet News
At least three current and former Lyris customers this week complained that recipients of their e-mail newsletters have been receiving spam. MarketingSherpa.com, a publisher of online marketing newsletters, suspects that all eight of its mailing lists have been compromised, said Anne Holland, the company's founder. More than 20 other publishers, who combined have more than 2 million e-mail addresses on their lists, have also contacted Holland saying their Lyris-hosted lists have been compromised.
