Targeting Spam > Spammers Slam Small Business
[Kill Spam Now] According to the Miami Herald, spammers are zeroing in on small businesses for the simple reason that small businesses generally have less sophisticated anti-spam technology at play. The result, of course, is reduced productivity.
Some related posts from Technorati and Google.
[Somecrankyguy.com] some cranky guy » Internet: And stinking spammer scabs are ruining it. While some people code wonderful open source programs such as WordPress, others code robot spammers to slam hundreds of spam messages into a blog.
[Blogquebecois.com] the blog québécois : September 2004 Archives: I think that Google (and other search engines) has been tweaking its algorithm to downgrade the Page Rank of blog comments, so the spammers are ultimately going to lose whatever benefit they get from these attacks.
[Ladlass.com] Internet Changes Everything: Dragging the Net for Cyber Criminals: In advance of Ashcroft's news conference, Robert Wientzen, head of the Direct Marketing Association, told The Post: "It's a large number of cases." The DMA, a trade group, is involved because bona fide marketing efforts have taken a hit as consumers get inundated with spam and phony online offers. "The FBI (news - web sites), with help from the DMA, launched Operation Slam Spam a year ago, with technical operations at a field office in Pennsylvania.
Reflected tags on Technorati: Blog, Spam, Targeting Spam