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Washington Post: E-Mail Opens New Door For Familiar Scam Tactic
The get-rich-quick con, dubbed the "Nigerian Letter Scam" by authorities, was operated out of Toronto and Nigeria from 1994 to 2000 and swindled more than 300 people, including about 20 in the Washington area, out of approximately $20 million,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A64335-2002Apr28
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Telepolis: European Parliament to come to crucial vote on spam
"Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs" asks European Parliament to force the floodgates wide open for spam.
http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/12603/1.html
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SF Gate: Spam attacks growing
According to the latest monthly data from Brightmail the rate of unique spam attacks measured by the company's network of decoy addresses has increased more than five-fold during the past year -- from less than a million in June 2001 to more than 4.8 mil
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/07/15/BU224200.DTL
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Computerworld: Search goes on for ways to stop spam
At a Global Internet Project conference today, IT and government officials looked at ways to counter the spreading nuisance of unwanted e-mail.
http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/groupware/story/0,10801,72088,00.html
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BBC News: Getting Tough On Spam
Unsolicited e-mail is becoming a problem for users and internet service providers.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1979761.stm
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BBC News: New York takes on 'spam' e-mail
Fresh from his victory over Merrill Lynch, state attorney general Elliot Spitzer sues MonsterHut.com for sending millions of 'spam' e-mail adverts.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2014617.stm
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smh.com.au: Sun goes down on man of words
Green describes these electronic messages as "a little ray of sunshine". It irritates him that some of the recipients can't see the light. They regard Green's sunshine as spam, get mad as hell, and send him responses that are "threatening,
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/07/26/1027497416227.html
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The Age: Spam, the plague giving the Net indigestion
If you already get too much junk e-mail, you'll get twice as much by New Year - and at the moment there is little anyone can do to stop it. No wonder consumers rate it their worst computer problem.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/08/01/1028157817675.html
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San Francisco Chronicle: Spam stampede clogs Internet
Amid all the unwanted e-mail pitches for Viagra, porn and Nigerian get- rich schemes comes this message from computer experts: You ain't seen nothing yet.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/09/08/MN137044.DTL
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NewsFactor: Spam Versus Technology: The Battle Rages On
One difficulty in stopping spammers is that some of their ploys work. If no one believed the story of the deposed, rich prince and others like it, much spam would cease.
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/19319.html
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