Tag: JUNKMAIL

About the only creature lower on the totem pole than the nefarious telemarketer is the spammer. With these creeps, you can't even take solace in the fact that they're only doing their job, which is why it fills us with a sick sense of giddiness every time one of these obnoxious mass-e-mailers gets tossed in the clink. The latest bozos to get nailed for filling our In-boxes with junk e-mail are ...

For most Internet users, retrieving wanted e-mail messages is like hacking through the dense underbrush of a rainforest using a Jason Voorhees-sized machete. But, instead of vines and tree branches, it's pitches for stock deals and Canadian penis pills you're hacking through. Though junk mail is a modern inconvenience we've mostly gotten used to, it's no less shocking to learn that spam now ...

What's that putrid smell, you ask? That, friend, is the mounds and mounds of junk mail piling up all over the Internet. According to a new study by research firm IDC, 2007 is the year when the number of spam emails being sent and received will outnumber legitimate person-to-person (P2P) emails. Two factors are at play: Image-based spam is becoming increasingly popular with spammers and can ...