Prime Time Group, Inc. today verified that several SPAM emails have been sent to recipients purportedly offering information about Prime Time Group and its stock. via Market Wire
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Stormy weather

A dodgy spam definition update from Cloudmark has crashed users’ email clients.
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Stock spammers currently promoting PRTH.PK are continuing to try new variants in the hope of getting through. Some recent spams have included attachments in ‘.fdf’ format (used for fillable PDF forms) and there have also been extensive plaintext floods, using various degrees of obfuscation to try to get around spam filters. Yesterday’s flood, which delivered 338 messages to our spam traps, was the largest single-day stock spam run we’ve seen to date.
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Stormy weatherA dodgy spam definition update from Cloudmark has crashed users’ email clients.Original post by Dougal and a wordpress plugin by Elliott
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This just in from SpamSuite: Sindeelou Thomson has sued US Representative John Doolittle for sending her unwanted spam. [Channel 13, Sacremento story].

Given that the CAN-SPAM act specifically legalizes political spam, I don’t think this will get a lot of traction. In this particular case, however, she’s suing under the California anti-spam law which is somewhat tougher than CAN-SPAM. This may be worth watching.
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“We want to make it possible for anyone to build a search site for $500. We don’t view Google as the competition, we view cost as the competition.”

Google and its search engine competitors may be facing hundreds - or thousands - of new rivals. via Techworld
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Earlier this week, I reported that James Gordon had lost his lawsuit against Virtumundo on summary judgement and that Virtumundo had been awarded approximately $111,000 in legal costs from Gordon. To nobody’s great surprise, Gordon has appealed [SpamSuite] the summary judgement, which presumably will put the award of legal fees on hold.

The legal document shown at SpamSuite does nothing more than notify the court of Gordon’s intent to appeal. No grounds for the appeal are given yet.
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And on Friday, 13th July a S61-A4 Sikorsky Nuri helicopter crashed in Genting Sempah, Pahang, killing all six crew members aboard. via Harakahdaily
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Football (OK, soccer) is pushing to the forefront of adopting interesting technologies. Here’s one I hadn’t heard from Bolton Wanderers, where players enter a chamber at minus 120 degrees Celsius to enhance muscle recovery after training. It’s called cryotherapy, according…
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Australian victim bilked of $1.5mSix men with ties to a West African crime network have been arrested in the Netherlands over an internet scam that bilked a man of $1.5m, according to police.Original post by Dougal and plugin by Elliott Back
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“She’s tried to do that, but she’s just looked like someone spinning out of control”

Roseanne’s ‘Drunk’ MySpace Rant Holds Lessons for Others By JONANN BRADY, ABCNews.com Posted: 2007-08-08 07:37:19 - Some recent posts on actress Roseanne Barr’s MySpace page created a minor stir in the world of … via AOL News
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Australian victim bilked of $1.5m

Six men with ties to a West African crime network have been arrested in the Netherlands over an internet scam that bilked a man of $1.5m, according to police.
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Storm worm’s a brewin’

Security researchers are reporting a sharp increase in the number of machines infected by the Storm Worm, prompting speculation that its authors, who so far have limited their activities to spam, intend to use it for more destructive purposes, such as launching massive denial of service attacks.
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Over the years, spam blocking has become more sophisticated and the role of blacklists has been reduced. via Clickz
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I wondered what would happen when I reached the limit of my Gmail account, and now I know: I can buy more space. When I checked my account just now I found the message above and this one at the…
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“The addition of this new Sunbelt spam detection engine is part of our continued focus on providing our customers with the most comprehensive protection for both inbound and outbound email security”

Sunbelt Software, a leading provider of Windows security software , today announced the addition of a new antispam filtering engine to Ninja Email Security, version 2.1 for Microsoft Exchange. via Market Wire
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Published 12:00 am PDT Thursday, August 9, 2007 Story appeared in BUSINESS section, Page D3 Cybercrime may consist of mostly ones and zeros, but it’s costing Americans plenty of dollars and cents. via Sacramento Bee Newspaper
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