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Following the Spam Trail

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-read dept.

An anonymous reader writes "MSNBC's Bob Sullivan doggedly follows a spam trail from Alabama to Argentina to find out who actually benefits from spam. The beneficiaries aren't necessarily the pasty faced, high school drop out industrial spammers we have gotten to know, but well known companies."

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  1. Re:Get Spammed Thru An Anti-Spam Article! by dJCL · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I filled it out with a custom e-mail address, only ever entered on their site at that message. If I get any spam from that address, well we know where they stand from there... heh.

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