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Spotted by Mashable is a new site called Tweet2Win that offers regular prizes for users who spam Twitter with requested links.
The concept is simple enough, users sign up on the site […]

Yahoo wants payback from a group of spammers who used its company’s name on a phishing scam. The only problem? They don’t know who the spammers are.
Yahoo filed a lawsuit against the unknown suspects, according to court documents detailed in an official announcement today.
The company claims the spammers sent unsolicited emails appearing to […]

MySpace is rethinking its approach to applications built by external developers after finding some programmers using the tools to send spam.
“Left unchecked, these apps could create a negative experience for everyone, making it a chore to check your inbox each morning,” MySpace President Tom Anderson explained in the company’s developers’ blog.
As a result, MySpace has […]

MySpace is cashing in on the war against spam.
The social network site says it has won $234 million in damages, the largest judgment ever issued in a spam case, from the man known as the “Spam King.”
A Los Angeles judge ruled in MySpace’s favor when the “King,” also known as Sanford Wallace, didn’t show up […]

Google says reports of an “open relay” security hole in its Gmail interface are not factually correct, according to information obtained by The Inquisitr this afternoon.
The Information Security Research Team (INSERT) released a detailed study claiming spammers could “bypass” Gmail’s security protection systems and “be granted nearly unrestricted access to Google’s…SMTP relay infrastructure.” The […]