The Digital Mafia, and Spam Explosion
I found this article at Brendon Swanson’s blog, describing how Spam is on the rise. Here is the excerpt straight from Brendon :
It’s official. The mob has moved to the internet. Apparently all of those stock alerts and penis enlargement spam messages you get in your in-box every two minutes are coming from hired guns. Obviously, not literally. But kind of.
Apparently, pump-and-dump stock scams work over the Internet. I didn’t know anyone was dumb enough to fall for this crap, but I’ve been proven wrong for the first time ever. Who needs marketing when pushing your product illegally works just fine. Especially when you don’t really even have a product.
Here’s the real story, done well: THE DIGITAL MAFIA
i get stock/pharmaceutical and other emails all the time.
I suppose it’s a time when we accept that it is a part of the internet… sad but true.
Schumaker: we don’t have to accept anything. That’s the beauty of the Internet. Socialism will never work in the real world, but truthfully, that’s what makes the Internet go round. You decide what stories people should read, you decide what topics you want to be popular, you decide what media outlets will bring to you in real-time, so why can’t you decide what’s entering your in-box? Be creative, make it happen.
yes, internet is the ultimate democracy of this world, it is our internet, not theirs.
Yes, it will be a constant battle. After all the internet belongs to the users, not the corporations. The corporations cater to, and try to benefit from the internet. But ultimately it belongs to the user.
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