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30 years of Spam - and we ain't finished yet Many unhappy returns Spam celebrates its 30th birthday on Saturday (3 May).… MySpace wins lawsuit against Spamford Wallace Serial nuisance fails to defend case MySpace has won a lawsuit against notorious spammer Sanford (Spamford) Wallace. The social networking website gained a default judgment against Wallace after he failed to turn over documents or appear in court, CNet reports.… Spam busters blacklist MessageLabs and chums 'Word on the street' says Hotmail downed too One of the biggest spam block lists on the internet suffered an embarrassing technical cock-up today which blocked emails from some servers at web security monitoring firm MessageLabs and at some ISPs for about five hours.… Spam filtering services throttle Gmail to fight spammers Junk mailers set up CAPTCHA-busting sweatshops in India The growing abuse of webmail services to send spam has led anti-spam services to throttle messages from Gmail and Yahoo!… Link spammers go on social networking rampage MySpamBook Spammers have found a fertile new marketplace on social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace.… Spyware 'scammer' sued over PC pop-up invasion Washington state cracks down The alleged supplier of some of the net's most hated malware titles has been sued by Washington state's attorney general.… Enraged AT&T spam filter eats legitimate mail Aims too high to please Finding fewer emails in your AT&T spam folder? It may be a mixed blessing.… Notorious spammer pleads guilty to tax evasion and fraud Al Capone of junk mail heading for the big house Notorious spammer Robert Soloway faces an extended spell behind bars after pleading guilty to fraud and tax evasion charges last Friday.… Russian serfs paid $3 a day to break CAPTCHAs Semi-automated attack or chain-mail gang Why should miscreants bother to develop cutting edge programming techniques when they can pay $3 to somebody to set up spam-ready webmail accounts on their behalf? Evidence has emerged that people as well as malware are being used to defeat CAPTCHAs, challenge-response systems that are often used to stop the automatic creation of webmail accounts by spammers.… Pitcairn Island relays most spam per person South Sea junk mail mutiny Pitcairn Island, the final South Sea island refuge of the Bounty mutineers, relays more spam per capita than any other nation. But with an estimated population of 48, perhaps it's not that surprising.… Google red cards Privila for gaming search engine Articles of bad faith? Google has removed Privila sites from its index after the firm was caught attempting to hoodwink the search engine giant.… Smut peddlers and spammers invade Google Groups Junk bazaar Porn peddlers and spammers are upping their assault on Google Groups. Many links on the discussion group site link to porn aggregators, some of which redirect to malware sites pushing Trojan horse malware (such as VirusHeat) disguised as video codecs.… Most spam comes from just six botnets Diary of the Dead Six botnets are responsible for 85 per cent of all spam, according to an analysis by net security firm Marshal.… Phishers clean up at online casinos Poker faced fraud Email fraudsters are increasingly targeting customers of online casinos with phishing attacks. A wave of assaults against punters betting in casinos run from Antigua and the Dutch Antilles shows that attackers are extending their range beyond targets such as online banks and eBay.… Spammers crack Gmail Captcha Fresh fruit for rotting vegetables Spammers, fresh from the success of cracking the Windows Live captcha used by Hotmail, have broken the equivalent system at Gmail.…