[FYI] Spam marketers stay step ahead of Net cops

[Sven Gottwald <svengo@fitug.de>]

http://www.nwanews.com/adg/story_Business.php?storyid=28567

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Spam marketers stay step ahead of Net cops

BY SAUL HANSELL THE NEW YORK TIMES

Monday, April 28, 2003

Alyx Sachs is no longer sending people e-mail offering to "fix your
credit risk free." 

Confronted by an increasing number of individuals, businesses and
Internet service providers using software meant to identify and discard
unwanted junk e-mail . commonly know as spam . Sachs has been forced to
become more creative in her marketing pitches. The subject line on her
credit e-mail, for example, now reads "get a fresh start." 

>From a small office on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, millions of
messages prepared on behalf of others by Sachs and her partner are still
going out to e-mail inboxes every day, promising not just to restore a
poor credit rating but also to sell printer ink, 3-D glasses and,
lately, even playing cards with pictures of wanted Iraqi leaders. 

In the cat-and-mouse game of e-mail marketers and those trying to stop
them, the spammers are still winning. 
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Auch nicht schlecht:
http://slashdot.org/articles/02/12/06/1554227.shtml?tid=133

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