Study Sees Way to Win Spam Fight

Dogbiscuit · May 20, 2011

If a handful of companies like these refused to authorize online credit card payments to the merchants, “you’d cut off the money that supports the entire spam enterprise,” said one of the scientists, Stefan Savage of the University of California, San Diego, who worked with colleagues at San Diego and Berkeley and at the International Computer Science Institute.
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By blocking the transactions at the point at which the consumer uses a credit card, it is possible to shift the burden of cost to the spammer.

“The defenders can, in principle, identify which banks the scammers are using far faster than they can get new banks,” Dr. Savage said, “and for basically zero cost.”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/20/technology/20spam.html

J_L · May 20, 2011

Very interesting news, hoping for good results out of this. I just hate spam.

PJC · May 21, 2011

Let's hope things will be better against Spamming...

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