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State court overturns ruling in Jaynes case. Convicted spammer Edward 'Eddie' Davidson apparently killed his wife and daughter before taking his own life.
Convicted spammer Edward "Eddie" Davidson has escaped from a federal prison camp after serving just five weeks of a 21 month sentence. A New York court has sentenced a persistent spammer to 30 months in prison. A new wave of malicious spam relies on requests for delivery confirmations for unsolicited emails. Spammers are using increasingly inventive ways to circumvent email systems and find their way into inboxes. A court in Virginia has struck down a spammer's appeal that his conviction violated his rights to free speech.. A 25-year-old Japanese man has been arrested in Tokyo for allegedly sending 2.2 billion spam messages advertising gambling and dating services under the guise of a fake identity, according to Japanese media reports. A district court judge has temporarily ordered a pharmaceutical company to halt the delivery of spam messages promoting herbal pills claiming to help shed pounds. A convicted AOL junk mailer, who tried to strike a spam business deal over instant messenger with a confidential informant, was sentenced on Friday to 27 months in prison. A New York man pleaded guilty this week to violating the CAN-SPAM Act by sending junk email to about 1.2 million AOL subscribers in a 2005 run. A man described by Microsoft as one of the top ten spammers in the world has been sentenced to nearly four years in jail. Social networking giant Facebook has been awarded a hefty US$837m judgment against a Canadian spammer under the US Can-Spam Act. The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) stung a pornography marketer with a US$465,000 civil penalty this week for breaking anti-spam regulations that require an email warning of sexually explicit materials. The first company to be convicted under Australia's anti-spamming laws was fined about $4.2 million today for sending 280 million spam emails. The amount of unwanted email is again surging after a host of botnets -- led by the high-powered Srizbi network of compromised machines -- have reconnected to internet service providers. A scam campaign is using profiles from YouTube to advertise products and services. Spammers are stepping up their use of Shockwave Flash file redirects to avoid detection. Spammers have developed automated techniques to create fake pages on Google's Blogger service that are used to hawk typical junk mail merchandise. MySpace today announced it has filed a federal lawsuit against a well-known spammer who allegedly used the popular social networking site to send millions of messages promoting websites that hawked items such as ring tones and Polo shirts.