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Article: Internet Spam and Fraud
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- Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, andSecurity
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Internet Spam and Fraud
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K. LEE LERNER
An increasingly costly and vexing economic security issue involves the high traffic in unsolicited commercial email (termed "spam") and the use of internet communication to commit fraud.
Nearly one-half of the estimated 50 billion email messages sent each day are spam mail that contain usually misleading or fraudulent representations for products or services ranging from health and well-being products to pornography. Internet experts assert that nearly 90 percent of the spam mail sent is sent by a network of less than 200 individuals or direct marketing companies that use spam. Spam is costly to Internet service providers (ISP) and ...
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Article: "DR.SPAM" TRACKS DOWN SPAM MAIL SOURCES.
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......desktop program to completely automate the tracking down of Spam mail sources, even allowing novice users to email those empowered...email headers and use the many tools needed to track down a Spam Mail Source in the headers can be a complex task; however, DrStopSpam...
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