20% Less Spam for Thanksgiving This Year!
October 28th, 2010 | Humor,News,Online & Small Business Resources,shopping,Small Business,Small Business Tips | No Comments »
To be honest with you, I actually really liked Spam when I was kid. I don’t know what it was about that imitation, rubbery, ham-like substance but I am fairly certain that my Mom had me convinced it was real meat…either that, or I just didn’t know enough to think anything of it. Jump forward 20 years, and Spam (emails) have become the bain of every Internet user’s existence. Well, we are all in luck according to this article in the New York Times a couple days ago that indicates that these Spam emails should be decreasing by about 20% in the United States.
This article gives more details about how a major “spam kingpin” was recently arrested by Moscow police. Apparently Igor Gusev was paying spammers handsomely to send emails promoting online pharmacies through his SpamIt.com domain. The New York Times article goes on to talk about how known mass spammers and other cyber security threats have operated in public view for years but that recently the Russian government has started to try and clean up this image while also trying to partner with Silicon Valley to bring more commerce to the country.
While the reason for this Spam clean-up may be a little back-handed, I think that this is definitely good news for online security in general and a much needed step in the right direction. Have you noticed a lower level of Spam email in your inbox over the course of the last 3-4 weeks?
