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January 3, 2001 |
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Fifty Million Fraudulent E-Mails Net Los Angeles Pair Two Years in Prison |
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Two men received two-year prison terms for sending a blizzard of 50 million e-mails as part of a scam that overwhelmed the largest U.S. Internet providers. Steve Shklovskiy and Yan Shtok, both 23, also must pay more than $100,000 US in restitution for their role in the September 1999 scheme, authorities said Tuesday. The men were sentenced Dec. 27, just over a year after they pleaded guilty to fraud charges. Two others were sentenced to probation in July ... »
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January 3, 2001 |
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E-mail Angel Keeps University of Minnesota Parents in the Know |
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Cindy Krueger lives 250 miles from the University of Minnesota's Twin Cities campus, but she knows an awful lot about what goes on there. The Appleton, Wis., mother of two Minnesota students knows that students in residence halls were concerned about alcohol use this fall. She knows that there were two attempted sexual assaults on campus in October, and that the university has a night escort service to walk students across campus. She knows that midterms can be tough on freshmen and that cookies or a call from home can help ... »
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January 2, 2001 |
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Goodwill Industries Builds Store Traffic With Direct Mail Campaign |
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Goodwill Industries of upper South Carolina increased in-store sales by 8 percent this month with its first territorywide direct mail campaign. At the end of November, Melinda Muxlow, public relations and advertising director at Goodwill Industries, worked with a local printing company to create a trifold, self-mailing, four-color piece that was sent to 22,221 preferred customers ... »
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January 2, 2001 |
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Zagat Tests Transactional E-Mail to Push Restaurant Guides |
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Just in time for the last-minute holiday shopping rush this month, Zagat Survey LLC, New York, a publisher of restaurant guidebooks, began testing a transactional e-mail system that enables customers to purchase special guidebook bundles through the e-mail message promoting the guides ... »
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December 31, 2000 |
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Bad year for e-mail viruses, worse to come |
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LONDON, Dec 31 (AFP) - Attacks by e-mail viruses in Britain rose by up to 300 percent over the past year, according to a report by a monitoring company released in London on Sunday. virus-monitoring company MessageLabs said it had detected and stopped about 155,528 e-mail viruses by the end of November, or roughly one every three minutes. ... »
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December 29, 2000 |
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30 Minute Photos Etc. Disbands E-Mail System After Spamming Customers |
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You can have your photographs developed in a half-hour, but communication with 30 Minute Photos Etc. will take decidedly longer after it inadvertently spammed hundreds of its customers this week. The Irvine, CA, company said yesterday that it will disband the e-mail system it uses to communicate with its customers in favor of the telephone and mail ... »
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December 28, 2000 |
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One More Internet Disaster Story for 2000, Hundreds of Identical E-Mail Messages Taint Business |
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IRVINE, Calif. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — Dec. 28, 2000 — It started out fine yesterday when 30 Minute Photos Etc. sent its customers a standard e-mail update on a new product offering. But something went wrong ... very wrong. Within minutes, the phones at the Irvine retail photo center all echoed with the same concern from callers: people were receiving multiple e-mail messages ... »
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December 28, 2000 |
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NEC Launches U.S. E-Mail Marketing Firm |
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Tokyo-based electronics giant NEC Corp. is planning a foray into the U.S. rich media e-mail business, spokespeople said this week. The company aims to capitalize on what it sees as an emerging industry by starting a new company, San Jose, Calif.-based Auraline ... »
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December 27, 2000 |
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Direct Mail Is Selling, Not Advertising |
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"Direct mail? We tried it once, and it didn’t work." That’s what many businesspeople say after sticking a product brochure into an envelope, mailing it and waiting for the orders to roll in. Of course it didn’t work. That’s not direct mail, it’s advertising. Mistaking direct mail for advertising is all too prevalent. The misconception creates strategic and tactical errors that not only waste money but also keep businesses from enjoying the increased sales and profits that direct mail can bring ... »
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December 26, 2000 |
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Internet providers constantly trying to find ways to limit unwanted e-mail |
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In the bloodied trenches of the Internet, the 5-year-old e-mail spam war rages with increasing sophistication. As one side develops new shields and weapons, the other counters, as they pass the advantage back and forth. "It is a war," said Steve Weaver, information services director of Internet Nebraska. "So many people are doing it. Half of my mail is spam. I get 150 pieces of spam a day." ... »
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