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Monday, 30th November 2009

Spam messages

Double spam with our chips this year INTERNET users in the UK receive 20 billion spam e-mails every day - twice as much junk mail than a year ago, according to a new report. Some 120 billion spam messages are sent every day worldwide - 20 spam messages per day for every person on the planet - and 49 in every 50 e-mails sent is now spam.

'Who'd be stupid enough to believe Oksana was real, instead of a Russian Mafioso?' EWAN MORRISON 'HELLO, I am Oksana. Am good girl seeking man of dream. In summer I love to float, to remove all superfluous clothes and feel impacts of wind on my leather."

The spam busters THE swindlers who bombard us with e- mail spam scams didn’t know what they were taking on when they began corresponding with Bob Servant. The fictional creation of Scottish writer Neil Forsyth, Servant ran rings around so- called African lawyers, lonely Russian women and Nigerian tribal chiefs, and his e- mail exchanges are published in a book, Delete This at Your Peril, next week. FIONA MacGREGOR spoke to Bob and his creator, and got a sneak preview

Plea to Holyrood not to ban junk mail BUSINESSES will this week urge the Scottish Government not to cave in to demands by campaign groups to ban junk mail.

Spam e-mails show relentless rise

Site launching to fight spam

Postie's junk mail crusade

Inboxes groan under weight of billions of bogus e-mails

Third of UK companies flout law on junk email

Internet phone users face a Spit of bother

Mass marketing scams hit half of British population

550,000 tonnes of junk mail hit UK doormats

Businessman in landmark legal win against scourge of internet 'spam'

Spam tsar sends out unwanted message admitting defeat in war on junk e-mail

Spam fritters money away for small businesses

'Phishers' try to hook half of internet users with spam e-mails

Spammer off to slammer

Subject: your 4,000,000 daily e-mails

Con artist faces jail term for sending millions of e-mails

OFT declares war on spam

FBI in town to boost the battle against e-crime

There's 100,000 of them . . and they're after you

Lazy Guide to Net Culture: Mark Thatcher spam

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