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Amazon’s self-publishing e-book platform appears to be overrun by spam or low-quality e-books. Of the thousands of digital books being published through Amazon’s self-publishing system each month, many are spam, either developed via Private Label Rights or even using toolkits that help people produce e-books in bulk — a process that does not involve actually writing an original word.
The old adage about a sucker being born every minute is no less true among respondents to spam. Dishonest people have always been trying to make a fast buck by duping others into confidence scams, and the Web has give those people an easy way to communicate with more potential marks. However, modern-day scam artists may be capable of making a faster buck from a lot fewer suckers.
Social networking site Facebook has won an $873 million judgment against Montréal-based spammer Adam Guerbuez. Guerbuez “was phishing Facebook accounts and tricking people into giving them their personal information,” said Facebook spokesperson Barry Schnitt. “He then would send their friends e-mails for phony pharmaceuticals and sleazy sexual products.”
Okay, some of you have been getting pretty testy over your comments not being approved. For some of you, it’s your own fault. Don’t try and spam my comments with links! For others, once I approved your comments, they would simply vanish and not show up under the post they were suppose to. I couldn’t [...]
If you notice less spam in your e-mail inbox today, you can thank a coalition of cybersecurity researchers who have made it their mission to sew up spam-based “botnets” on the Web. Earlier this week, HostExploit.com gave a Washington Post reporter information about a hosting company, McColo, that was allegedly providing command-and-control capabilities for a spam botnet.