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The National Consumers League, Internet Fraud Watch published two surveys on Web e-mail scams: Top 10 Internet Scams 2001 (includes data on Type of Complaint, Percentage of Total Complaints and Average Loss), and Ages of Consumers Who Filed Complaints, 2001 (includes Percentage of Total Complaints). The surveys are available in tabular format on this webpage. …
This Securities and Exchange Commission press release states that the agency filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York against Samuel Aaron Meltzer (“Meltzer”), referred to as a “professional Internet spammer,” for committing securities fraud via the Web (SEC v. Meltzer, E.D. N.Y., Action No. CV 03 770, Judge …
This PCWorld article, Are Spammers Hiding Behind Students? indicates that students at Tufts University accepted payment to route spam through the institution’s network. See also: Tufts student to be disciplined for using university network for spam.
The Washington Post reports that ISP giants and rivals Microsoft and AOL are working together to help craft legislation on the federal and state level to fight the uncontrollable tide of spam that plagues their respective subscribers, which total over 140 million. To provide some perspective on the enormity of the problem, AOL alone claims …
Palo Alto California’s Mayor Dena Mossar announced a settlement of lawsuits brought against the City Council by The Palo Alto Weekly and the San Jose Mercury News concerning e-mail correspondence that was not disclosed to the public. The Council held a closed door meeting on October 30, 2002 during which time they disseminated e-mail concerning …
From PC Magazine, this review and comparison of ten popular applications to combat spam on your home PC, as well as a six applications for use by IT departments and ISPs.
The FTC announced a free, three day forum, April 30-May 2, open to the public, consisting of fourteen separate panels, each addressing different aspects of the spam email issue including legislation, security, privacy, law enforcement, and blocking software. The text of the Federal Register notice on this forum is available here, and references a recent …
The Colorado House Committee on Technology and Information has introduced a new bill, HB 03-1200, to amend the Junk E-Mail Law to include a no-solicitation list similar to the telemarketing no-call list. The full-text of the Colorado Statute is here.
Global web access was disrupted on Saturday by an attack of a worm called SQL Slammer that affects Microsoft SQL Server 2000. Other consequences included a delay in e-mail delivery and all of Bank of America’s ATMs were shut down.
Appellate courts around the country are attempting to craft procedures that apply to the use of technology by cybercrime offenders once they leave incarceration. Disparate determinations are being made in regard to such offenders, allowing some to return to regular use of the Internet and e-mail, while others, such as notorious hacker Kevin Mitnick, was …
The current issue of the Duke Law and Technology Report (2003 Duke L. & Tech. Rev. 0001), has an article by Mark Sweet, Political E-mail: Protected Speech or Unwelcome Spam? This link comes via politechbot.com, where Declan McCullagh has been discussing Sen. Joseph Lieberman’s use of bulk e-mail to promote his recently announced 2004 Presidential …
Tech-savvy Australian law firm Phillips Fox is exploring the use of e-mailing their attorney’s audio dictation files, using smart card technology, to typists in their New Zealand offices, according to their IT Manager. Due to the time zone difference, documents e-mailed in the evening would be ready first thing the next morning.
