Amazon Bulk-Email Service Could Lure Spammers

Posted by timothy on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @12:52PM from the penny-for-your-thoughts-on-sexual-enhancement dept.

snydeq writes "Amazon Simple Email Service and Amazon Web Services look to be a potent combination for businesses and developers, no matter which side of the law they're on, InfoWorld reports. The newly announced bulk email service, which will enable Amazon customers to send 100 emails for a penny, could prove enticing to those seeking a cheap way to bombard inboxes with spam, malware, and phishing lures. Amazon claims its in-house content filtering technology should assuage anyone thinking SES will be used by scammers. 'Those assurances aren't entirely heartening, though, unless Amazon is way ahead of the curve with content-filtering technology. Email services and software vendors have tried for years to keep spam and other unwanted messages from showing up in users' viewing pane, but the crud keeps slipping through.'"

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first spam! by Anonymous Coward · 2011-01-25 12:55 · Score: 0, Funny

suck my herbal v1agra c0ck!!!
1. Re:first spam! by Larry+The+Black+Fag · 2011-01-25 12:57 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  a/s/l?
  
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2. Re:first spam! by Anonymous Coward · 2011-01-25 13:35 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  early 30s, stocky male with a goatee, Holland, Michigan.
Unhappy interpretation by plover · 2011-01-25 13:04 · Score: 4, Funny

When I read that Amazon was going to "Lure Spammers" I was hoping they meant "into pit traps, filled with tigers."
Boy, was I disappointed.

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You're not thinking. by postbigbang · 2011-01-25 13:20 · Score: 4, Funny

Spamazon.

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