- Google Gets Brand Hijacked By Online Pharmacy Scam
Online Media Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, February 17, 2011
A message containing text promoting a drug that prevents hair loss a ...
- Ascentive Sued For Tricking Consumers With Scareware
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, January 20, 2011
A Minnesota resident has sued FinallyFast.com owner Ascentive for false advertising f ...
- Report: Top Facebook Advertiser A Bing Scam
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Gavin O'Malley - Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Based on research by comScore and
Matt Cutts, head of Google ...
- Spammer Ordered To Pay Facebook $1 Bil
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Gavin O'Malley - Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Montreal "Internet marketer" Adam Guerbuez has been ordered by a Quebec cou ...
- Twitter Hacked by Porn Sites, SPAM
The Social Graf, Erik Sass - Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Either everyone on Twitter is getting into the porn business, or t ...
- FTC Bans Company That Emailed Phony Domain Renewal Notices
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, August 10, 2010
The Federal Trade Commission said this week that it has obtained ...
- Where Does That Short URL Lead?
SearchBlog, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, August 4, 2010
How many spam emails do you get daily? Spam emails account f ...
- Comments On 1020 Webspam Projects
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Google's Matt Cutts asks what Webspam projects the company should work ...
- California Court Backs Vonage In Spam Lawsuit
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, June 21, 2010
In a significant victory for email marketers, the California Supreme Court sa ...
- Microsoft Sues Alleged Spammer For Circumventing Filters
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Microsoft has sued Connecticut resident Boris Mizhen for allegedly gaming Hotmail's sp ...
- Guidelines To Avoid SEO Spam
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, April 30, 2010
David Harry provides us with guidelines on understanding Web spam and h ...
- New Tool Allows Consumers To Manage Behavioral Targeting Preferences
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, April 29, 2010
Spam compliance company UnsubCentral will unveil a new service Thursday that enabl ...
- Microsoft's Patent To Clean Up Spam
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, April 26, 2010
Could a search engine effectively rely on searchers to help clean ...
- Pardon the Interruption, But...
Online Media Daily, George Simpson - Friday, April 23, 2010
In order to protect your sanity, I suspect you use every possib ...
- Judge Brings Reunion.com And Spam Suit Together Again
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, April 12, 2010
A federal judge in San Francisco has revived a spam lawsuit again ...
- Facebook's Funnel Into Google Renews Focus On Privacy Management
SearchBlog, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, February 25, 2010
Now, Google gives brands with fan pages a funnel to Facebook fr ...
- Tagged Wins Lawsuit Against Spammer
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, January 28, 2010
Social networking site Tagged has won a $200,000 default judgment against ...
- Losing Argument: Study Finds Spam Works For Weight Loss Pitches
Online Media Daily, David Goetzl - Tuesday, January 5, 2010
While the email marketing industry has waged a PR battle to distan ...
- Court Dismisses SMS 'Spam' Lawsuit
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, December 14, 2009
A federal judge has dismissed a computer fraud lawsuit against a compa ...
- Judges Can Spam Suit Against Epic
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, December 4, 2009
A federal appellate court has upheld an order dismissing an Internet servi ...
- Google Cracks Down On Spam In Business Listings
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, December 4, 2009
Marketers of local business listings have been waiting patiently for Google ...
- Tagged Settles False Advertising Allegations With N.Y., Texas
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, November 9, 2009
Law enforcement officials in New York and Texas have extracted $750,000 fr ...
- 'Spam King' Ordered To Pay Facebook $711 Million
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Saturday, October 31, 2009
A federal judge in California has ordered Sanford Wallace to pay Facebo ...
- Facebook Dethrones Spamking
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Gavin O'Malley - Friday, October 30, 2009
In lieu of a more traditional monetization model, Facebook might consider so ...
- Dearest Sir, Nigeria Tackles Web Scammers
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Gavin O'Malley - Friday, October 23, 2009
Here's a shocker. The Federal Republic of Nigeria has reportedly had enou ...
- Symantec Investigating Possible Twitter Botnet
Online Media Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, August 14, 2009
As if Twitter hasn't had enough problems trying to fend off malicio ...
- Email Marketer Wins Spam Lawsuit
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Sunday, August 9, 2009
Handing a victory to email marketers, a federal appeals court has dismiss ...
- How Email Marketers Battle Highest Level Of Spam In Two Years
Online Media Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Marketers responsible for sending email promotions may find it more challenging ...
- Mobile Marketers Stand Together To Lobby FCC
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, June 30, 2009
A recent court ruling stating that sending text message ads can viola ...
- Spam King Faces Hard Time
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Spam king Sanford Wallace could land in jail for criminal contempt ...