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There's a spam mailing list that is in widespread us in the UK that has a specific error in the data which gives away just how often the list is used. It's a lot. And the range of spams that it is used to promote is surprisingly diverse. But oth...

Xoom Corporation of California claims exclusive rights in the word "xoom" for on-line offerings. There's just one slight problem: they didn't invent it, weren't the first to use it and were not even the first "xoom.com."

Facebook users are being subjected to a mix of chain-mail / spam / hoax which may or may not have a fraudulent purpose. It's working because of the viral nature of relationships within the system.

Facebook has answers a series of questions relating to the capital raising by Goldman Sachs and clarified how the funds have been raised.

Every time Facebook changes its profile system, users have to make certain that only the information they intend to release is actually released. With recent evidence of how a criminal used the public profile of Facebook users to re-create and u...

It's almost elegant in its irony: someone started a false rumour that Facebook would close down on 15th March and that users should remove all th...

Somehow, this doesn't seem like news, at least not if you bought office computers in the mid 1980s. But for millions - possibly thousands of mill...

Health Plans, Inc, a third party administrator of health and benefit plans, has agreed to pay USD275,000 to settle claims made by the Business So...

There's a chap who calls himself Dr Martin Vermont. The Dr bit is, he says, due to a Ph.D. It might be true - but he's a serial spammer. The amus...

In the beginning, there were Yahoo! and Lycos which dominated the search engine market. Yahoo! went from strength to strength, Lycos got left beh...