Spammers cash in on pope's funeral, SCMP.com, 13 Apr 2005

“Spammers are using the pope's passing to entice the Roman Catholic faithful worldwide into a bogus moneymaking scheme by luring them with an offer of free books about the pontiff, a British-based computer security expert warned on Tuesday.�

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Here Comes E-Mail for Mobile Phones, Finally, Yahoo.com, 13 Apr 2005

“E-mail is widely used on certain smart phones. The time for widely available and useable e-mail on mobile devices is near. Carriers appear to be closer to getting the message -- certainly not by wireless e-mail though -- that users are not willing to pay premium rates for services they already have at home. All that e-mail data transfer is pricey. But if money were not an issue, more people would go for it.�

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Commtouch Reports March Spam Trends: Sharp Rise In Financial-Fraud Related Spam, Commtouch, 13 Apr 2005

“Financial fraud is becoming an increasingly significant aspect of global spam. The announcement was based on data from the Commtouch Spam Detection Center, which analyzed hundreds of millions of spam messages in the month of March 2005.�

Include statistics on: Top spam topics for March 2005
Geography of Spam in March 2005
Countries Hosting Spammers Websites
Domains Used by Spammers
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