I am fed up with the blog comment spam. I have inserted a confirmation code checking mechanism to prevent auto form submissions (used for blog comment spam). Please note that you have to enter the confirmation code to post comments. Sorry for the inconvenience and hope this stops the blog comment spam at last.
Jeremy Jaynes was convicted for using false Internet addresses to send mass e-mail ads through a server of Internet service provider AOL. He was considered among the top 10 spammers in the world, used the Internet to peddle pornography and sham products and services such as a "FedEx refund processor. There were 53,000 illegal e-mails presented by the prosecutors in the court but authorities believe Jaynes was responsible for spewing out 10 million e-mails a day and made millions of dollars. He was sentenced for 9 years in jail.
To follow up with the US waste 21.6 billion dollars each year on spam emails posting, I came across this news today: Earthlink is ready to take actions fighting against spam email. EarthLink is going to sue multiple spam email service providers in US based on the law of federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. They are currently collecting evidence on how spam emails causes damages to individual and commercial organizations. EarthLink also announced that they will collaborate with yahoo to develop a new way to filter spam emails using digital signatures...
According to a new statistic from University of Maryland, US companies spent over 21.6 billion dollars each year deleting spam emails. The statistic selected 1000 adult citizens in the US and came up with this amazing result. According to the research, there is over 75% of internet users received spam email and an average of spam email each day is 18.5 per user, to detect and delete them cost an average 2.8 minutes. The research also found that over 14% of spam email receivers actually wasted their time from reading them. I think this is a very fair figure since I probably spend an average of 1-2 min each day on deleting spam emails.
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