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[Floydoid]

Quite an interesting read:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7719281.stm

[oldfogy]

The aim of their research was not how to stop it, but merely to find out how effective it is.
Personally I think they should be prosecuted for what they did.

While running their spam campaigns the researchers sent about 469 million junk e-mail messages. The vast majority of these were for the fake pharmacy campaign.

[jazz]

That's a very interesting piece of research.  The very tight profit margins were interesting - I hope someone can find a way of pricing them out of business cos we'll never totally stop some people from thinking it would be a good idea to buy from a spammer!!

[jazz]

@Of  - I think you're being a bit harsh there.  Until there is a clear idea of how something is working it is very difficult to find an effective way to stop it or harm it.