Spammer uses Flickr to host spam images

February 18th, 2008 by Rebecca Herson | Category: Email Security, Spam Favorites | Leave a comment »

The original image-based spam embedded images in email messages, however it’s even simpler, and easier to fool anti-spam engines, to embed references to images in the HTML code of a message. What this means is that the source code of the message will pull an image from a remote server, assuming the reader is connected [...]

Microsoft sues stock spamming John Doe

May 30th, 2007 by Batya | Category: Email Security | Leave a comment »

Hoping to tackle the growing problem of pump-and-dump stock scams Microsoft has quietly filed lawsuits against at least three alleged perpetrators who it says used its MSN Hotmail networks to promote stocks.
Pump-and-dump spam has not only taken up resources and threatened the smooth functioning of Hotmail, but it “continues to result in significant costs to [...]