The week of August 7th, 2008 the
amount of malicious spam a single computer user received finally overtook health and product spam. Meant to exploit holes in your operating system, get credit card information from you, or simply just to copy your contact list, spam emails have become more than just a nuisance for the States, they have become outright dangerous.
Unfortunately, our government has not made a substantial leap to protect its citizens from this danger that is lurking in our homes and offices.
The Center for American Progress and the Center for Democracy and Technology
have released a report which shows in 2007 “the FTC reported 221,226 internet-related fraud complaints, up from almost 16,000 in 2006 and more than 24,000 from 2005.” With these numbers so drastically high, and probably even higher than stated as many computer users don’t report all of the malware they receive via email, why don’t we hear about our states taking more action against spammers?
States generally have brought charges against those who they find are seeking personal data or cases where it involves pornography, but for cases involving spyware, adware and other types of phishing the Cyber-crime Newsletter released bi-monthly by the National Association of Attorneys General highlighted only 14 cases in which individuals or groups were brought before the states.
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