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Spam Kings: The Real Story Behind the High-Rolling Hucksters Pushing Porn Pills and Enlargements

by Brian S. McWilliams
RM37.00 MYR
Spam Kings: The Real Story Behind the High-Rolling Hucksters Pushing Porn Pills and Enlargements
Spam Kings: The Real Story Behind the High-Rolling Hucksters Pushing Porn Pills and Enlargements

Exposé on spam industry's seedy underbelly.

If you've ever been curious about the people who flood our inboxes with unwanted emails, "Spam Kings" offers a deep dive into their world. You'll find it fascinating how Brian McWilliams explores the cat-and-mouse game between spammers and those fighting to curb the digital menace. It's a real-life thriller that might change the way you look at your spam folder.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Spam Kings: The Real Story Behind the High-Rolling Hucksters Pushing Porn Pills and Enlargements

by Brian S. McWilliams
RM37.00 MYR
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ISBN: 9780596007324
Authors: Brian S. McWilliams
Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates
Date of Publication: 2005-01-30
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Business
Related Topics: Technology, Entrepreneurship, Productivity
Goodreads rating: 3.62
(rated by 108 readers)

Description

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' inboxes, costing society an estimated $10 billion in lost productivity, filtering software, and other expenses. "Spam Kings" 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
 

Exposé on spam industry's seedy underbelly.

If you've ever been curious about the people who flood our inboxes with unwanted emails, "Spam Kings" offers a deep dive into their world. You'll find it fascinating how Brian McWilliams explores the cat-and-mouse game between spammers and those fighting to curb the digital menace. It's a real-life thriller that might change the way you look at your spam folder.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.