Did you hear about what happened in California
recently?
[quote]
ANTI-SPAM LAW VICTORY
Published on October 25,
2003
Author(s): Reuters
California won
its first anti-spam judgment when a court fined a marketing firm $2 million for
sending out millions of unsolicited e-mails telling people how to spam. State
Attorney General Bill Lockyer brought the case against PW Marketing of Los
Angeles County and its owners, Paul Willis and Claudia Griffin, in 2002 under a
1998 state anti-spam law.
[/quote]
The entire article is no longer available on the
Boston Globe website without fee payment, but that's the jist of it. I
wonder if/when we'll see something similar in Arizona.
Brian
Team A.I.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 8:45
AM
Subject: RE: [Az-Geocaching] off topic
e-mail question
I
think there's been an increase in spam because someone probably figured out
that most of our email addresses are exposed on AZGeocaching.com. I had
been surprised that someone hadn't used a bot to get them yet. I've seen
an increase recently in my inbox as well. I heard that the UK is
going to start cracking down on spammers and have them thrown in jail, so some
of them are pushing out a greater volume to get their last little bit of
money...or so I'm told by some spammers I know from
Europe.
Brian
Team
AZEvil
The Nigerian scam is the latest ploy that some
people seem to keep falling for. I'm not sure about the yahoo issue
specifically, but I'm getting quite a bit more SPAM than I used to, and I
believe Cox is just getting lax with their e-mail filtering.
Brian
Team A.I.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 12:26
AM
Subject: [Az-Geocaching] off topic
e-mail question
Sorry that this is off topic, but is anyone else with a yahoo e-mail
getting larger amounts of spam that is the Nigerian scam? I've also been
getting some with odd foreign subject headings that I can't even decipher.
I haven't been opening them, but are these some sort of virus attacks or
just attempts to defraud me? Any ideas? I'm beginning to be a bit spooked
about it.
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