Romania has for many years been a major source of criminal spam, and it is encouraging to hear that the Romanian authorities are cracking down on it.
Romania has for many years been a major source of criminal spam, and it is encouraging to hear that the Romanian authorities are cracking down on it.
Posted by CAUCE on 19 May 2008 in United States, World | Permalink
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Posted by CAUCE on 05 May 2008 in United States | Permalink
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Read the rest of his comments on his blog.
Posted by CAUCE on 30 April 2008 in United States | Permalink
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"Plaintiff e360Insight, LLC is a marketer. It refers to itself as an Internet marketing company. Some, perhaps even a majority of people in this country, would call it a spammer. e360 sends e-mail solicitations and advertisements, for a fee, to millions of e-mail users. More than a few of those users are subscribers to Comcast, an Internet service provider. Many e-mail users do not want to see (or delete unread) the messages sent by e360. Even if every user wanted these e-mails, Comcast might well have its network overloaded by the mailings."
-- Judge James B. Zagel, e360Insight, LLC vs. Comcast Corporation,
Memorandum Opinion and Order filed April 10, 2008
Posted by CAUCE on 11 April 2008 in United States | Permalink
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Posted by CAUCE on 17 March 2008 in United States | Permalink
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Large scale spammer Robert Soloway, whose criminal trial was scheduled to start next week, pled guilty to most of the criminal charges against him
CAUCE board member John Levine comments on the case in his blog.
Posted by CAUCE on 16 March 2008 in United States | Permalink
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by J.D. Falk
I've always maintained that spam does not make one great, but Al Ralsky kept a relatively high profile for long enough that his unwelcome intrusions into our inboxes — and our friends' inboxes, and our parents' inboxes, and our children's inboxes — will be long remembered.
Today the entire email industry is cheering the arrest and indictment of Ralsky and his gang, which was reported in the Detroit Free Press this morning. It's obviously good news for anti-spammers, who have been clamoring for prosecutions of illegal spamming activity for more than a decade. But it's also wonderful news for the email marketing industry, which has been trying to show the world that they aren't spammers. Now, the marketers can point to Ralsky's illegal activities and state with one voice: "we do not do these awful things."
But I think the marketers have to ask themselves: is there anything Ralsky was doing which isn't illegal per se, but might still be considered spam-like in the eyes of your subscribers? Perhaps a subject line which is only slightly misleading — not enough to violate CAN-SPAM, but enough to violate the trust your subscribers have in your brand. Perhaps treating opt-in as a license to blast them over and over, until your message falls on deaf ears.
If a sender acts like a spammer, even if they aren't bad enough to get arrested, how different are they from Al Ralsky and his ilk?
And likewise, I think the anti-spammers have to consider whether following "big name" spammers is worth the effort. It seems certain that for every high-profile blowhard like Ralsky, there's another dozen who are just as prolific — but, like most other criminals, never seek attention.
This is a great triumph for all who want to preserve email as a viable communications medium. We congratulate the United States Department of Justice and the FBI for their impressive work, and the Spamhaus Project for keeping a close eye on Ralsky's activities for so long.
But this is not the end of spam; far from it.
This article was also published by Return Path.
Posted by CAUCE on 04 January 2008 in United States, Warnings | Permalink
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Spamhaus, the well-known anti-spam organization has been in court, sued by Chicago area bulk mailer E360. A year ago E360 got a default judgement against Spamhaus for $11 million, which Spamhaus later appealed. The appeals court has ruled, and it looks promising for Spamhaus.
CAUCE board member John Levine comments on the latest decision.
Posted by CAUCE on 03 September 2007 in United States | Permalink
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Sanford Wallace, a famous spammer from the 1990s is back, in a legal tangle with MySpace, for sending a whole lot of spam to MySpace users.
CAUCE board member John Levine writes about it in his blog.
Posted by CAUCE on 22 August 2007 in United States | Permalink
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CAUCE board member Ray Everett Church writes at internetnews.com:
According to the majority of the testimony at this month's "Spam Summit," held by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the state of the fight against spam is pretty much the same as it has been for the last several years.
The two days of presentations can largely be boiled down to the following bullets:
Oh, and the spam wars are a lot less exciting than they used to be. Case in point: unlike last time, there were no fist-fights at this year's shindig. ...
Posted by CAUCE on 28 July 2007 in United States | Permalink
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