Russias Biggest Spammer Murdered
Moscow investigators report that greed, not anti-spamming nor a contract, resulted in Vardan Kushnir’s death. The 35-year old Armenian had been killed with a series of repeated blows to the head....
View ArticleMixed Messages From Microsoft’s Spam-King Settlement?
Microsoft with some help from the New York Attorney Gerneral’s office has won a $7 million settlement from Spam King Scott Richter. Microsoft says that it will use the money that it has won from the...
View ArticleAOL Giving Away Seized Spammer Assets
The AOL Spammer’s Gold Sweepstakes gives people a shot at winning a notorious spammer’s yellow Hummer H2, as well as cash and gold. After tracking down New Hampshire-based spammer Brad Bournival, AOL...
View ArticleReally Stupid Spammer
RSS and Blog spam remain a maddening phenom in the world of Really Simple Syndication. Doc Searls takes the time to elaborate about this on his blog and explains why. He pulls a quote from “Feedster’s”...
View ArticleMystery Surrounds Spammer Sentencing
A New York man accused of sending over nine million spam messages within MySpace.com was sentenced, but details are unknown. At the request of Anthony Greco’s defense attorney, the 18-year-old’s...
View ArticlePorn Spammer Faces 5 Years In Slammer
A California porn spammer pleaded guilty in US federal court in Arizona last week to violating the CAN-SPAM Act by sending hundreds of thousands unsolicited graphic emails. Forty-three year-old Kirk F....
View ArticleInterview with a Search Spammer
Chris Pirillo gets the goods on search engine spam with an interview of an anonymous “search spammer” at the New York Search Engine Strategies conference. The voice is decidedly European, possibly...
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Digg Article on CNet is Inaccurate
I recently read an article on CNet about Rigging Digg. The article was an interesting read but contained many inaccuracies. I was going to blog about it in detail today but this morning I read these...
View ArticleSpammer In The Slammer
Rest assured, email recipients, somebody is about to pay dearly for sending you all that Viagra spam. Is a 30-year prison term acceptable for all those clogged in-boxes? A federal judge thinks so. He...
View ArticleNew Google Webmaster’s Guidelines
I just found another Google webmaster guideline worth sharing… According to Matt Cutts, the FTC thinks you should clearly mark paid links. If you do clearly mark paid links Google editors will penalize...
View ArticleProtect Yourself from Being Called a Spammer
The purpose of this article is to help website owners, writers, internet marketers to protect themselves from being accused of spamming. Anyone that has a website, webpage or electronic newsletter and...
View ArticleHow NOT to Appear Like a Spammer
You’ve probably received something that is called SPAM. SPAM is unsolicited email commercial. Many people harvest other people’s email addresses on email and web forums and send them info that they...
View Article“But They Said the List was Opt-in!” Don’t Become an Unwitting SPAMMER.
Spam. A dirty word for those on the Internet. Also called UCE, or unsolicited commercial email, spam is when someone sends you their offer without your express consent. Pretty much everyone has...
View ArticleThe Spammer and the Entrepreneur, Gaining Success Without Being Placed in...
Granted the above title sounds like some lazy day romance novel you may find someone reading this summer by the pool. The fact of the matter is, the “art” of spamming has become a crime. In the past...
View ArticleMicrosoft Rings Up Spammer for $4 Million
Microsoft has been awarded nearly $4 million in the company’s latest legal victory against spam. In a summary judgment against Daniel Khoshnood of Canoga Park, California, the U.S. District Court for...
View ArticleNew York Attorney General And Spammer Settle Case
Scott Richter, CEO of direct marketing firm OptInRealBing.com, LLC, and New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer have reached a settlement. Richter was sued last December, accused of sending misleading...
View ArticleAre you making these Deadly SEO Mistakes?
Black Hat SEO: Web Spamming and Linking to Bad Neighborhoods So you want to exchange links with other web sites in order to get higher search engine rankings? So you want to create hundreds of...
View ArticleJudge To Spammer: You’ve Got Nine Years
A Loudoun County Circuit Judge sentenced Jeremy Jaynes, who was convicted of sending unsolicited emails, to nine years in prison in the nation’s first felony prosecution resulting from a spam-related...
View ArticleSpammer Gets 9-Year Sentence
A Virginia Court gave Jeremy Jaynes, who was convicted of sending bulk emails with spoofed addresses, a nine-year sentence on Friday. However, because of an appeals process and by the Judge’s...
View ArticleDid Anti-Spam Gang Kill Russian Spammer?
Certain anti-spam parties have made threats in the past against some of the world’s more notorious spammers. Russia’s Interfax news agency reports that notorious spammer Vardan Kushnir was found...
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