Spam articles

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  India overtakes US to become top spam purveyor in early 2012

  By Adi Robertson on April 23, 2012 01:03 pm + 7 comments

  According to research by IT security company Sophos, India is now the leading source of junk email. Continue reading…

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  Google-sponsored research identifies groups of bogus product reviewers

  By Jeff Blagdon on April 17, 2012 06:53 am + 24 comments

  Crowdsourced product and service reviews are a great way to gauge how good something is before you Continue reading…

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  Twitter shuts down @fame for unspecified ToS violation, service to relaunch elsewhere

  By Sam Byford on April 12, 2012 09:42 pm + 18 comments

  Twitter has shut down Fame, the raffle that sought to bestow untold legions of new followers onto Continue reading…

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  Twitter fights spammers in new lawsuit, implements additional anti-spamming measures

  By Bryan Bishop on April 5, 2012 07:15 pm + 11 comments

  Spam is a nuisance across any form of electronic communication, and Twitter has made it clear it Continue reading…

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  T-Mobile apologizes for ads in Android notification area, fixes the issue

  By Dieter Bohn on March 30, 2012 09:56 pm + 20 comments

  Recently, T-Mobile's "My Account" app on some of its Android handset started pushing ads into the Continue reading…

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  Update to T-Mobile's My Account app brings ads to the Android notification area

  By Nathan Ingraham on March 30, 2012 12:08 pm + 38 comments

  All the major carriers have smartphone apps for managing your account, and they're generally boring Continue reading…

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  Facebook introduces comment permalinks, automatically hides spam ones

  By Tom Warren on March 29, 2012 03:10 am + 5 comments

  Facebook is rolling out two new additions to its commenting system this week, allowing its many Continue reading…

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  How Pinterest spammer 'Steve' reaps thousands of dollars a day with a network of fashion bots

  By T.C. Sottek on March 27, 2012 10:37 pm + 32 comments

  In an interview with The Daily Dot, a self-described 24-year-old man by the name of Steve details Continue reading…

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  Marketing 'email overload' may have led ISPs to block more messages in 2011

  By Adi Robertson on March 27, 2012 06:09 pm + 17 comments

  The huge numbers of deals and newsletters companies send via email may be sparking a backlash. For Continue reading…

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  Pirate Bay links blocked from Windows Live Messenger due to 'malicious' content

  By Nathan Ingraham on March 26, 2012 01:54 pm + 30 comments

  We learned yesterday that Microsoft had started blocking links to The Pirate Bay in Windows Live Continue reading…