Spammers Try to Entice Unemployed Affected by the Health Care Crisis

September 3rd, 2009 by Shara Grifenhagen | Category: Spam Favorites | View Comments

With all the talk about Health Care reform in the White House due to a rise in unemployment and a lack of access to affordable health care, it seems health insurance has become a hot topic in spam. The Commtouch Labs recently saw a very sophisticated spam message that included a bogus “Unsubscribe” page in [...]

Israeli CAN-SPAM Engenders Its Own Spam

Starting next month, the Israeli anti-spam law will be coming into effect. The new law deals with unwanted postal mail, text messages, and phone calls in addition to email. It has more in common with the European law than the US CAN-SPAM act, since it requires senders/callers to have a record of the recipient’s having [...]