Graphic: Diego Aguirre In the late 1990s Robert Soloway made $20,000 a day as a spammer. He drove fancy cars. He wore Armani clothes. He was, by all accounts, one of the most successful spammers on ...

A database of more than 10 million spam email messages collected at just one Internet "spam sinkhole" suggests that Internet service providers could better fight unwanted junk email by addressing it ...

NEW YORK – Every day when she got to work, public relations specialist Aileen Katcher found herself having to deal with perhaps the biggest downside of the Internet revolution: junk e-mail, or spam.

Amid all the unwanted e-mail pitches for Viagra, porn and Nigerian get- rich schemes comes this message from computer experts: You ain't seen nothing yet. With the economy sagging and advertisers ...

If you're sick of spam, imagine wading through dozens of prerecorded porn and Viagra messages on your voice mail. Some computer security and privacy experts are warning that such a day may not be far ...

A year after the CAN-SPAM Act became law, email users say they are receiving slightly more spam than before, but they are minding it less. More than half of internet users still consider spam to be a ...

The most notorious automatic spam-sending software on the Internet has introduced a new feature that stealthily gets around key anti-spam filters. SendSafe is popular with spammers because it is easy ...

Imagine an Internet with no e-mail. As ludicrous as it sounds, it could happen. And it won't take some new virus or worm to render the Internet useless. All it will take is unsolicited commercial ...

Most email users find spam annoying, but do not consider it a big problem. When asked how spam affects life on the Internet, the majority of emailers (59%) describe spam as “annoying, but not a big ...

For some reason, word got out that I am interested in increasingthe size of my male organ and I keep get e-mails touting thesolution to my dilemma. Not only that, but other unsolicited e-mails have ...