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Email is the single most effective marketing tool for many businesses -- and being blocked as an email spammer can be their biggest headache. It's getting more difficult to get into inboxes, as the ...

Spammers face a battle to deliver their messages. First they need a revenue model that reaps rewards. Next they need a never-ending supply of valid e-mail addresses with as much qualifying data as ...

Have you helped a spammer today? According to operators of spam-filtering lists, an alarming number of people are unwittingly helping junk mailers shuttle spam, or unsolicited bulk e-mail. Those ...

Robert Alan Soloway, 27, is charged with mail fraud, wire fraud, e-mail fraud, aggravated identity theft, and money laundering. Prosecutors said he made $773,000 from his business, Newport Internet ...

NEW YORK — Junk e-mail continued to land in mailboxes around the world Thursday, despite the arrest a day earlier of a man described as one of the world's most prolific spammers. Even if Robert Alan ...

A top spammer known as the "Spam King" has been arrested after years of investigations and experts say it could result in a short-term dip in the volume of spam. If this prosecution is successful it ...

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Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Email is the single most effective marketing tool for many businesses — and being blocked as an email spammer can be their biggest ...