Almost half of British citizens have gotten spam emails related to banking, according to a Kaspersky Lab study. The report found that 47 percent of British Internet users have received fake emails which claim to be coming from a bank. In addition, 29 percent of the people surveyed reported suspicious messages supposedly sent on behalf of an online store.

eBay sent an email with the headline "Increase the chances of selling your items on eBay" to sellers last week. The email had a link to the seller's listings and included recommendations on how to fill in the Item Specifics fields. But some of the listings already had the information filled in, so it was a waste of time for sellers. eBay spokesperson Ryan Moore admitted the error. "A small proportion of emails had misidentified information," he told eCommerce Bytes. "If sellers have questions, our customer service department will be able to help them out."

Only 25 percent of marketers are very likely to include videos in their email campaigns, according to new metrics from Email Monks. According to the report that number could go up, as 55 percent of the marketers surveyed said that they are "somewhat likely" to add email to video soon. Only 20 percent of marketers have no plans for video in email.

An alliance of German phone and Internet companies is pushing to keep German email and Internet within German borders. The proposal, which was spurred on by revelations that the US government is spying on the correspondence of German citizens, is designed to bolster the security of Germany's internal communications and keep them from leaving Germany. The messages would be housed on servers that are within the country's borders. Germany has much stricter consumer privacy laws and this would keep Germans from being spied on.

Adobe has revealed that an online attack compromised the personal data for 38 million customers. The hackers gained access to the credit card information, as well as the Adobe usernames and encrypted passwords. Last month Adobe was hacked and the scammers stole personal data for 2.9 million of Adobe's customers.

Whistleblower Edward Snowden met with German Green party lawmaker Hans-Christian Stroebele in Moscow on Thursday to discuss his revelations that the US government was spying on Chancellor Angela Merkel's phone calls and emails, according to reports. Stroebele revealed that Snowden would like to talk directly to the US Congress to testify about these issues.

Chad White, principal of marketing research at e-mail marketing services provider ExactTarget, has identified a glitch in the Apple's new iOS 7 operating system that email marketers should pay attention to. According to White, the update has made his iPhone e-mail app was more sensitive to numbers when they appear in subject lines. For example, when the iPhone detects a date in a subject line, the app turns the date into a link that the user can touch to automatically create a calendar event. Sounds good, but when he tried to save an email from Sears with the subject line, …