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Kaspersky Lab experts refer to spam as anonymous unsolicited mass mailings. Most of these mailings are adverts, although several categories of spam serve other purposes. “Non-advertising” spam includes one of the most dangerous types of spam – fraudulent messages.

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Security experts are warning users of new rash of malicious spam disguised as a parcel tracker. According to researchers at McAfee, a new round of malware-laden spam messages using the cover of a package tracking invoice have been discovered.

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A new large-scale botnet has been spotted forwarding what appears to be real news headlines about Microsoft, George Bush and Al Qaeda in an attempt to infect users. Security vendor Marshal is warning that a growing large-scale botnet – called Rustock - is forwarding spam containing exploitive headlines in an attempt to infect users and [...]

Social networking sites and mobile phones used to spread unwanted messages, as United States retains top spot in Dirty Dozen spam-relaying countries. IT security and control firm Sophos has published its report on the latest trends in spam, and revealed the top twelve spam-relaying countries for the second quarter of 2008.

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Wikipedia defines identity theft as ‘a term used to refer to fraud that involves stealing money or getting other benefits by pretending to be someone else.’

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