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The funny thing is that whatever useless pharmaceuticals you might get from spammers are probably no worse for you than the flu shot itself, which is all but useless as well. The viral strain in this year's vaccine doesn't even match the one that's now being detected in the population.
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IT Confidential: Spim, Spam, Spyware, And The Flu Vaccine Nov. 1, 2004
- Last week America Online moved to nip it in the bud by bringing lawsuits against 20 "John Does," identified by their numeric IP addresses.
- The lawsuits were brought in federal court in the Eastern District of Virginia, along with 10 other lawsuits against spammers AOL accuses of "peddling controlled substances, including Vicodin and other pharmaceuticals," mostly in Europe and Canada.
- With the lawsuits taken together, AOL is asking for statutory damages totaling millions of dollars and "disgorgement of illegal profits," according to a statement.
- The lawsuits stem from more than 2 million complaints on the part of AOL members and allege violations of the Federal CAN-Spam law and Virginia's anti-spam state law.
- AOL's lawsuits were made in conjunction with the Anti-Spam Alliance, which it formed last year with partners EarthLink, Microsoft, and Yahoo.
- The alliance partners also announced last week they had filed lawsuits against spammers in courts in California, Georgia, and Washington state.
- Spammers and phishers are taking advantage of the shortage of flu vaccine in the United States to dupe consumers into divulging credit-card numbers or buying bogus doses online, a security firm warned last week.
- Bogus offers for the flu vaccine are "rampant," according to Vircom, a Montreal E-mail security vendor, and unlicensed vaccines are being sold by unregulated online pharmacies and offshore suppliers.
- The Recording Industry Association of America filed lawsuits last week against 750 computer users, most of them college students, in its attempt to control the illegal distribution of music over the Internet.
- According to Webroot, most companies incorrectly assume they're immune from spyware because of the security software they already have in place.
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