| Spam costly to court system [17. Jan 2006 20:56] |
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FARGO, N.D. - North Dakota's court system had 91 percent of its more than 5.8 million e-mails blocked as spam last year.
Court officials said each of the 5.3 million spam messages took an employee about 3 seconds to deal with, at a cost of more than $101,800 in "lost productivity."
In 2004, the state court system received more than 4.2 million e-mails, and the spam filter stopped about 88 percent.
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| FBI warns of sick Sago disaster spam [17. Jan 2006 20:55] |
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The FBI has issued a warning that spammers are exploiting the Sago mining disaster in which 12 miners lost their lives.
The emails purport to be raising funds for an operation to save the life of Randal McCloy, the only survivor of the disaster. McCloy is currently in a critical condition in hospital after spending nearly two days trapped underground.
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| A New Place for Spam\'s Same Old Pitches [04. Nov 2005 10:28] |
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Now that Web logs -- blogs, for short -- are a popular online pastime for millions of people, scammers are finding new ways to exploit them as vehicles for junk advertisements.
The Internet has even coined a term -- splog, a combination of spam and blog -- for a phenomenon that follows in the footsteps of rogue advertising such as spam e-mail, junk mail, junk faxes and adware.
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| Government & business must work together to fight spam [04. Nov 2005 10:27] |
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Government and business must work together and across borders to tackle spam, the Office of Fair Trading has said at a summit of international spam enforcement agencies in London.
The summit, hosted by the OFT and the European Commission Contact Network of Spam Enforcement Authorities brings together over 60 public and private sector agencies from over 27 countries to promote cross-border cooperation on spam and spam-related problems, such as on-line fraud and computer viruses. These agencies, signatories to the London Action Plan on spam (see note 3), have undertaken to work together to tackle spam through smarter, more strategic law enforcement and by educating consumers and business on how to avoid falling victim to spammers.
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| Marketers claim to fight spam [24. Oct 2005 12:29] |
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The Direct Marketing Association, an industry group for companies that send people pitches they didn't ask for, announced the other day that its members will now stand at the front lines in the war on spam.
http://tinyurl.com/8a9nf |
| Spam threatens business productivity [24. Oct 2005 12:27] |
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According to estimates from Ferris Research, the global cost of spam will reach 50 billion dollars in 2005, 17 billion alone for companies in the US
A study by The Radicati Group, estimates that the cost to companies by 2007 will have reached 198 billion dollars.
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| Spam pushes \'Manifest Destiny\' to new frontier [18. Oct 2005 09:33] |
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And you thought hearing the uncannily cheerful proclamation, “You’ve got mail!” warble through your computer speakers was annoying.
Across the United States, we might as well switch out the infernal America Online siren song and treat ourselves instead to the likes of “You’ve got spam.” As of Oct. 12, Sophos, an enterprise security software company, has pegged the United States as the top spam offender in the world for a second consecutive year.
http://tinyurl.com/9zp2b
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