Spam - Unsolicited Email
What is spam? Spam is not just a meat product from Hormel any more. Email spam is unsolicited e-mail sent to you without your having requested information or made contact with the sender. Spam has rapidly become one of the most annoying factors in having an email account. What can you do about it? The answers range from "not much" to "fight back", depending on the nature and source of the unsolicited mail. Spam filters and blockers can remove known spam senders from your incoming mail; anti spam software is available; there are resources online to help you fight back and block spam. Find out more on email spam by browsing through the articles and sites listed below.
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| Bill Gates Gets 4 Million Emails a Day The Microsoft founder is the most spammed man in the world, with 4m emails arriving in his inbox each day. |
AOL Engineer Sold 92m Names to Spammers A software engineer working for America Online was last night charged with stealing the internet service provider's entire... |
| Duck That Spam You may have faced a lot of problem due to the spam mails and they might have filled your mail boxes many times. Here is a... |
How did I get spammed and how can I minimize it? If you are an active internet user, there is a 95 % probability that every day you get tons of spam mail in your mailbox,... |
| The Scam Which Caused a Painful Sting Fraudsters have discovered that folly and greed are not so rare. In the revolting world of spam, among the penis... |
Amazon moves to tackle alleged email fraudsters Amazon is seeking millions of dollars in damages against 11 email marketing companies for allegedly using its identity to... |
| Fraudsters Bring Email Chaos Fastest-spreading computer virus ever may have been launched by spammers, IT experts say. Criminals and fraudsters are... |
Australia tries to can spam Australia is attempting to outlaw what its minister for communications calls "the mosquitoes of the internet" -... |
| Can it, Spam firm tells American software makers A legal battle for the right to incorporate the word spam in the trademark of software companies has begun in the US. |
You've got spam Another day, another 14.5bn unwanted emails. Junk messages waste our time and clog the internet, so how can the epidemic be... |
| California tries to can the spam menace It should gladden the hearts of everyone who has had their fill of spam - "unsolicited commercial email" to give... |
Father of Spam Unrepentant The man who invented unsolicited email should say he's sorry, writes Duncan Campbell. |
| Email of the specious I've had some interesting discussions on spam since writing Online's cover story on the subject last month. The question on... |
Californian law would charge $500 a time to smother the taste of spam Spam - the unwanted email which clogs up mailboxes with offers of anything from porn to miracle diets - could be made... |
| The Economics of Spam Spam is an industry. Mass e-mailers maintain lists of e-mail addresses, often "harvested" by spamware bots -... |
Merrill tamer's spam war An internet firm which allegedly swamped more than 500 million email users with unwanted "spam" advertisements... |
| Spam Mail and How To Stop Spam Imagine that moment of excitement when you first realize you have new mail in your inbox, only to open your mail and... | |