Spam Kings: the Real Story behind the High-Rolling Hucksters Pushing Porn, Pills, and %*@)# Enlargements

More Than Sixty Percent Of Today's Email Traffic Is Spam, According To Email Filtering Firm Brightmail. This Year Alone, Five Trillion Spam Messages Will Clog Internet Users In-boxes, Costing Society An Estimated $10-billion In Lost Productivity, Filtering Software, And Other Expenses.spam Kings: The Real Story Behind The High-rolling Hucksters Pushing Porn, Pills, And %*@)# Enlargements Is The First Book To Expose The Shadowy World Of The People Responsible For The Junk Email Problem. Author And Veteran Investigative Journalist Brian S. Mcwilliams Delivers A Compelling Account Of The Cat-and-mouse Game Played By Spam Entrepreneurs In Search Of Easy Fortunes And Those Who Are Trying To Stop Them.spam Kings Chronicles The Evolution Of Davis Wolfgang Hawke, A Notorious Neo-nazi Leader (jewish-born) Who Got Into Junk Email In 1999. Using Hawke As A Case Study, Spam Kings Traces The Twenty-year-old Neophyte's Rise In The Spam Trade To His Emergence As A Major Player In The Lucrative Penis Pill Market--a Business That Would Eventually Make Him A Millionaire And The Target Of Lawsuits From Aol And Others.spam Kings Also Tells The Parallel Story Of Susan Gunn, A Computer Novice In California Who Is Reluctantly Drawn Into The Spam Wars And Eventually Joins A Group Of Anti-spam Activists. Her Volunteer Sleuth Work Puts Her On A Collision Course With Hawke And Other Spammers, Who Try To Wreak Revenge On The Antis. You'll Also Meet Other Cyber-vigilantes Who Have Taken Up The Fight Against Spammers As Well As The Cast Of Quirky Characters Who Comprise Hawke's Business Associates.the Book Sheds Light On The Technical Sleight-of-hand--forged Headers, Open Relays, Harvesting Tools, And Bulletproof Hosting--and Other Sleazy Business Practices That Spammers Use; The Work Of Top Anti-spam Attorneys; The Surprising New Partnership Developing Between Spammers And Computer Hackers; And The Rise Of A New Breed Of Computer Viruses Designed To Turn The Pcs Of Innocent Bystanders Into Secret Spam Factories.