Spam trivia (from the graphic which is hard to read unless you look at PDF
https://images.newscientist.com/wp-cont ... f_spam.pdf)
scroll down to quote...
THE GEOGRAPHY OF SPAM IN 1978… …AND NOW
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The Storm botnet unleashes a Christmas wave
of spam, doubling levels in a month
December 2007
Extrapolated over the whole
network, Storm generated
an estimated
$3.5 million
in pharmaceutical sales alone in
2008
WHAT SPAM IS WORTH
A new technique for creating
real-looking addresses to go in
the “from” field of spam emails
leads to a sharp peak – but
anti-spammers quickly wise up
April 2008
Another rogue ISP, RealHost is taken
down, but spam levels quickly recover as
spammers switch to back-up providers.
The cat-and-mouse game continues…
August 2009
The ISP 3FN is taken down
after the US Federal Trade
Commission catches an
executive agreeing to work
with a botnet owner
June 2009
The first big anti-spam
success as McColo, a
rogue internet service
provider (ISP) hosting
spammers, is taken down
November 2008
Computer/internet services
Other products (inc. pharmaceuticals)
Financial (stocks etc)
“Nigerian” lottery scams
Fraudulent products (fake degrees etc)
Miscellaneous
Get rich quick
Pornography
Bulk mail or spamming services
“Must have” reports (eg how to fix your
credit history)
281 hits
262 hits
52 hits
2 hits
Los Angeles Boston
San Francisco Bay Area Rome, New York
ummm this is the part I wanted to post:
The first unsolicited mass email – an advertisement for a
forthcoming sales event – was sent in May 1978. At the
time, ARPANET, the forerunner of the internet,
connected just a few academic and military labs in the US
First spam sent from Gary Thuerk, Digital Equipment Corporation, from Maynard, Massachusetts
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https://moosend.com/blog/gary-thuerk-pe ... ver-again/
Gary Thuerk 'Father of Spam'
https://www.computerworld.com/article/2 ... -spam.html
I am summoning @AOU to ban your account on poal for off-site spamming.