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UK mechanic gets 6 million spam mails a year London: A British bus company mechanic relishes the fact that he receives six million junk e-mails a year. Forty years old Colin Wells has revealed that he started to receive 50 spam e-mails a day after signing up with an internet provider in 1999. He says that the flow kept growing, and touched an all-time high 44,000 mails a day mark. Sobhraj & Nihita: Lovestory 2008 Wells says that he has received
90% of e-mails exchanged are spam!
About ninety per cent of e-mails exchanged by people across the globe are spam! And this has resulted in an increased threat of virus attacks on our computer systems.
MySpace wins $230 m spam judgment
The popular online hangout MySpace has won a $230 million judgment over junk messages sent to its members in what is believed to be the largest anti-spam award ever.
Fraudsters unleashing new tricks: Symantec
Security provider Symantec says it has observed a dramatic resurgence of spam in 2007, peaking at 72 per cent of all e-mail traffic.
Cyber fraud: Bad guys are getting smarter too!
In May of last year, federal cybercrime cops had what seemed like a big win: After years of investigation, they had finally bagged the man they called the "Spam King," otherwise known as Robert Alan S |
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