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Globalized CAPTCHA in LCC

One great idea (great? Not really!) foudn and used by spammers and other scammers on the Internet in order to run around CAPTCHAs from some web sites (those little graphic forms that humans should be able to decode): Instead of having a computer trying to decode them, let's pay real people to do so. It's only a matter of paying very low salaries.

This is done with Indian people.

Source: ZDnet

New SPAM idea: Fake copyright infringment notices

Everything is useful to kick Internet users with SPAM. The latest fad is based on false copyright infringement notices. They are supposed to frighten the user into opening the mail and submit to its contents.

Source: ArsTechnica

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The encyclopédie du courrier électronique et du SPAM (encyclopaedia of electronic mail and SPAM) is written in French, listed in alphabetic order. It defines words, lists products, technologies, etc. and gives some useful advice. But in French!

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