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Spam king Jeremy Jaynes was sentenced to nine years in prison on Friday, but allowed to remain free while he appeals the decision. Junk email clogging up your inbox used to be annoying, but as René Millman reports, it’s moved beyond that and become a lot more sinister Earthlink continues the corporate backlash against spam by launching four lawsuits against alleged spamming outfits. A California man has been convicted on 79 counts of fraud and identity theft after flooding sportswriters' email accounts with spam. Alan Carlson, 39, sent thousands of vitriolic messages to Philadelphia-based journalists for over a year, and spoofed their email addresses to spam members of the public. Texas Attorney General Greg Abbot is taking a student, allegedly at the centre of one of the world’s largest spam operations, to court. The saga of the 24 year old West Virginian AOL staffer who stole over 30 million email addresses has taken another exciting twist. Microsoft’s Hotmail email service will continue to be protected by Symantec’s Brightmail anti-spam service, according to a contract secured today. Five countries are hosting 99.68 per cent of spammer websites, according to new research. US ISP EarthLink's announced that its investigation of Peter Moshou, aka the "Timeshare Spammer," has led to Moshou being sentenced to serve one year in federal prison. He will also pay $120,000 in restitution stemming from his conviction in June on a federal charge of violating the CAN-SPAM Act. A spammer who built up a £1.6 million ($2.75 million) fortune from his bedroom in his father's house was jailed for six years for fraud and other crimes. As reported here on December 3 Britain’s first anti-spam law is one year old today, and not a single conviction has been made. Under the Privacy and Electronic Communication Regulation the Government has failed to bring spammers to task, and the situation looks unlikely to change soon. Global collaboration is paying off. David Quainton reports on the legal success The strongest anti-spam legislation in the US has been approved in Ohio. The Substitute House Bill 383 promises up to 18 months jail time, fines and removal of property for anyone convicted of illegal spamming. Lycos’ vigilante website “Make Love Not Spam,” appears to have run aground. The site, an attempt to flood known spamming sites with requests, is experiencing operating problems. Spam - unsolicited email - is driving IT departments crazy. It wastes network and storage resources, steals time from staff and diverts IT resources to managing defences and poring over quarantine lists. A newly discovered category of fraud-based sites, which collect similar information to traditional phishing sites while promising victims a merchandise or a service, is "raising the stakes of internet scams", recent monitoring has found. SC Magazine asked John Cheney, Matt Sergeant and Alyn Hockey for the methods and dastardly tricks that spammers use to evade spam defenses. Here are some tactics the good guys discovered during the fight VirtualMDA is an email enterprise that seems to offer a hassle-free way for users to earn a dollar, but there is a catch – your PC becomes a conduit for junk email. Mark Sunner reveals the darker side of a spammer’s tool Spam has gone from virtually nothing four years ago to a major problem today. It is now estimated that spam accounts for about 60 per cent of all email carried over the internet, up from 45 per cent this time last year.