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The secret tricks that spammers use
To get messages out, spammers have taken to more and more unsavory tactics; they bounce their e-mails around the world, break into insecure university computers and launch spam campaigns from there.
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Who profits from spam? Surprise
Many companies with names you know are benefiting
In the trenches of the ‘spam wars’
Conflict not for faint-hearted, say e-mailers, anti-spam activists
Congress targeting outlaw spammers
But firms still could send unsolicited ads under top bills
Just how bad is the problem, anyway?
The future of e-mail is at stake, some say; but others shrug
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