On May 16, 2008, Yahoo decided to play the Spammer lotto by suing a whole bunch of spammers that have been using their name in online lottery scams. The article over at Wired.com points out that Yahoo didn’t decide to sue until MySpace.com won a huge award from spammers:

The one thing that strikes us as a little curious here is the timing of the lawsuit. These scams have been around almost as long as the Internet — why would Yahoo finally decide to sue now? It probably has something to do with a $234 million judgment for MySpace in a case against “spam king” Sanford Wallace. The judgment, believed to be the largest anti-spam award, came shortly before Yahoo filed its complaint on May 16.

It will be interesting to see if this goes anywhere, or is just another waste of time in the war on spamming.

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Internet users in South Africa are getting hit really hard lately by crime syndicates in Russia, the Philippines, Indonesia and the United States. The amount of phishing emails to South African users from crooks purporting to be one of the many banking companies in South Africa is on the rise, and the police can’t really do anything about it because of how sophisticated the crooks are at hiding their back trails.

Read the article on the South African news site IOL.

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