When Microsoft slayed the notorious botnet Rustock, which had been sending as much as 40 percent of all spam worldwide, in March 2011, it forced the volume of spam into a decline from which it has ...

Trying to stop all spam email is tough, but there are ways for you to thwart the majority of it from reaching your inbox. Spam email is unwanted and often unsolicited, clogging your inbox with ...

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Email is the single most effective marketing tool for many businesses -- and being blocked as an email spammer can be their biggest headache. It's getting more difficult to get into inboxes, as the ...

Spammers face a battle to deliver their messages. First they need a revenue model that reaps rewards. Next they need a never-ending supply of valid e-mail addresses with as much qualifying data as ...

Google's Gmail spam filters may block the bulk of spam from hitting your inbox, but according to one researcher it won't filter spam from a spoofed @gmail.com address. No one likes spam and for the ...

Have you helped a spammer today? According to operators of spam-filtering lists, an alarming number of people are unwittingly helping junk mailers shuttle spam, or unsolicited bulk e-mail. Those ...

Robert Alan Soloway, 27, is charged with mail fraud, wire fraud, e-mail fraud, aggravated identity theft, and money laundering. Prosecutors said he made $773,000 from his business, Newport Internet ...

A top spammer known as the "Spam King" has been arrested after years of investigations and experts say it could result in a short-term dip in the volume of spam. If this prosecution is successful it ...

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Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Email is the single most effective marketing tool for many businesses — and being blocked as an email spammer can be their biggest ...