
Traffic Catrol
They operate from countries where the practice is not prohibited, as the international organization Spamhaus, which takes eight years to fight against spam. Sending unsolicited emails (spam) on drugs, fast loans or pornography: the pirates make money to receive a percentage of sales of products and many of them using personal computers for users themselves to carry out the spam. In the United States and the European Union that practice is prohibited by law, but 64% of emails received are now spam.
That means the spam is not just a nuisance. His wealth is jammed Internet. About 55,000 million unsolicited emails are sent every day.
Who creates and sends all this huge amount of spam? The non-profit organization Spamhaus, based in the UK which carries eight years struggling against this activity, has published a list of the 10 biggest spammers. According to the state, this small group is responsible for about 80% of spam that is received in Western Europe and the United States. The FTC (Federal Trade Commission) of the United States last year and warned: “Although there are hundreds of thousands of people that cause this problem, the majority of spam comes from a small group of them.”
In the EU and U.S., junk mail is illegal. In Spain, send e-mails without permission of the person who receives it is expressly forbidden by the Law on Services of the Information Society (LSSI) 2002. But these pirates are changing networks and countries very often, and take advantage of lax standards of states like Russia or China and tax havens. Above all, take advantage of low international collaboration. According to recognize the past year, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), “the legislation is not going to stop, by itself, the spammers who want to make a profit.”
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Thu, Dec 11, 2008
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