Spams

Bulgaria

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• While most countries either outlaw or at least ignore spam, Bulgaria legalize it. According to the Bulgarian E-Commerce act anyone can send spam to mailboxes published as owned by a company or organization, as long as there is a "clear and straight indication that the message is unsolicited commercial e-mail".

• This made lawsuits against Bulgarian ISP's and public e-mail providers with antispam policy possible, as they are obstructing legal commerce activity and thus violate Bulgarian antitrust acts.

• The law contains other dubious provisions — for example, the creation of a nationwide public electronic register of e-mail addresses that do not want to receive spam. It is usually abused as the perfect source for e-mail address harvesting, because publishing invalid or incorrect information in such a register is a criminal offense in Bulgaria.

Interesting facts

Cost-benefit analysis

• 1. India 13,7%
• 2. Russia 9 %
• 3. Vietnam 7,9%

• "After 26 days, and almost 350 million e-mail messages, only 28 sales resulted."

• Many early Usenet spams were religious or political.

• Serdar Argic was arguing that the Armenian Genocide had not occurred or that Armenians had committed genocide against Turks.

• A number of evangelists have spammed Usenet and e-mail media with preaching messages

• The European Union's Internal Market Commission estimated in 2001 that "junk email" cost Internet users €10 billion per year worldwide.

• Spam's direct effects include the consumption of computer and network resources, and the cost in human time and attention of dismissing unwanted messages .Large companies who are frequent spam targets utilize numerous techniques to detect and prevent spam.

• From the arms race between spammers and those who try to stop or control spam.

• Spamming remains economically viable because advertisers have no operating costs beyond the management of their mailing lists, servers, infrastructures, IP ranges, and domain names, and it is difficult to hold senders accountable for their mass mailings. Because the barrier to entry is so low, spammers are numerous.

• Some spammers argue that most of these costs could potentially be alleviated by having spammers reimburse. There are three problems with this logic: first, the rate of reimbursement they could credibly budget is not nearly high enough to pay the direct costs[citation needed], second, the human cost (lost mail, lost time, and lost opportunities) is basically unrecoverable, and third, spammers often use stolen bank accounts and credit cards to finance their operations, and would conceivably do so to pay off any fines imposed.

In different media

• Email spam is the practice of sending unwanted email messages, frequently with commercial content, in large quantities to an indiscriminate set of recipients. Spam in email started to become a problem when the Internet was opened up to the general public in the mid-1990s.

• It grew exponentially over the following years, and today composes some 80 to 85 percent of all the e-mail in the World.

• Forum spam is the creation of advertising messages on Internet forums. It is generally done by automated spambots. Most forum spam consists of links to external sites, with the dual goals of increasing search engine visibility in highly competitive areas such as weight loss, pharmaceuticals, gambling, pornography, real estate or loans, and generating more traffic for these commercial websites.

• Mobile phone spam is directed at the text messaging service of a mobile phone. This can be especially irritating to customers not only for the inconvenience, but also because of the fee they may be charged per text message received in some markets.

• Video sharing sites, such as YouTube, are now frequently targeted by spammers. The most common technique involves spammers posting links to sites, most likely pornographic or dealing with online dating, on the comments section of random videos or user profiles. YouTube has implemented a CAPTCHA system that makes rapid posting of repeated comments much more difficult than before, because of abuse in the past by mass spammers who would flood individuals' profiles with thousands of repetitive comments.

Basic Information

• In the late 19th Century Western Union allowed telegraphic messages on its network to be sent to multiple destinations. The first recorded instance of a mass unsolicited commercial telegram is from May 1864, when some British politicians received an unsolicited telegram advertising a dentistry shop.

• The first usage of this sense was by Joel Furr in the aftermath of the ARMM (Automated Retroactive Minimal Moderation) incident of March 31, 1993. ARMM was a program developed by Richard Depew to allow news administrators to automatically issue cancel messages for abusive posts.

• The first major commercial spam incident started on March 5, 1994, when a husband and wife team of lawyers, Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel, began using bulk Usenet posting to advertise immigration law services.

• By 2009, the majority of spam sent around the World was in the English language; spammers began using automatic translation services to send spam in other languages.

Spams

• Electronic spamming is the use of electronic messaging systems to send unsolicited messages (spam), especially advertising, as well as sending messages repeatedly on the same site.

• The most widely recognized form of spam is email spam, online classified ads, mobile phone messaging, television advertising and file sharing spam.

• It is named after Spam, a luncheon meat, by way of a Monty Python sketch in which Spam is included in every dish.

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