Major university servers being used to facilitate spam, some of it illegal.What do Purdue University, Cornell U, Iowas State U, Texas Tech U, Kansas State U, (etc) have in common? Hint, it has nothing to do with education or sports. They're all advertising Viagra for sell online and don't know it. Some are also advertising something much worse. Until recently spammers were content to use automated bot programs to surf the Internet looking for email addresses to spam. There have been always been individual spammers cluttering up message boards, listservs, and chat rooms. But now spammers have started paying low wage off-shore labor to surf the web and post their clutter where ever they can. Because this is very labor intensive (compared to automated bot programs) and the payback per ad viewer is generally very low (below 1% of people viewing Viagra spam ads are dumb enough to order this way) the spammers are going where the labor is very cheap. China, Vietnam, Philippines, Indonesia and some of the previous east block countries are the big players in this game. All they need... » NIST.org - 04-01-2007  |   
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