Junk mailers

Usage examples of spammers.

Some spammers hack into unsecured servers - mainly in China and Korea - to relay their missives anonymously.

Greene calculated that his efforts - incorporating the newest and sneakiest tricks of direct-mail spammers - would spawn no fewer than ten thousand copies of the massive file by the end of the first hour.

List blockers, report and complaint generators, advocacy groups, registers of known spammers, and spam filters all proliferate.

Most experts, though, strongly urge spam victims not to respond to spammers, lest their e-mail address is confirmed.

The FTC - the US Federal Trade Commission - has taken legal action against more than 100 spammers for promoting scams and fraudulent goods and services.