According to news from Romanian and US authorities on May 19, 2008, 38 people from these two nations have been indicted of allegedly using intricate phishing scams in order to steal thousands of debit and credit card numbers, as reported by PC World on May 19, 2008.

Proofpoint, the communications security organization, detected a spoofed phishing message exploiting Apple's name, said on May 19, 2008 that people were receiving spam mails that told them to rectify an issue related to their iTunes account.

Computer security vendor Websense released a research titled "Websense E-mail Security" on May 21, 2008 that revealed that employees in the UK were too complacent about the security of their e-mail. It showed that nearly 31% of respondents were satisfied even though their company did not fully protect their e-mail, as they believed that they would not be targeted in cyber attacks.

The US-CERT (United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team) alerted computer users on May 19, 2008 to watch out for new phishing scams that were taking advantage of the recent natural calamities in Myanmar and China.

Security software vendor Sophos warned employees about the risks of establishing contact with strangers via LinkedIn, the site for business networking, on May 22, 2008. The warning came after it became known that 419 scammers or advanced fee fraud scammers are manipulating with the site in order to trap potential victims.

Center for analysis of world network of spyware, virus and spam, Sophos warned football supporters of Manchester United on May 22, 2008 to be on guard of unsolicited e-mails since a spam attack has been discovered in which the e-mails contain an URL named mnchesterunited.com.

A latest research claims that over 3 quarters of total sites advertised through spam are grouped at only 10 domain name registrars and just 20 registrars globally register 90% of the total sites advertised in spam mails, as per the news reported by HEISE ONLINE on May 20, 2008.

ClearMyMail, the company for spam prevention, recently released a report that revealed that over the first three months of 2008, Abbey in the United Kingdom was targeted in phishing attacks at the rate of 32.99%. FinancialAdvice published this in news on May 21, 2008.

Epic Advertising, performance marketing firm, known as AzoogleAds formerly, was able to successfully defend itself against charges that it violated the 2003 CAN-SPAM Act. ADOTAS published this in news on May 21, 2008.

According to MessageLabs, spammers have found a purely legitimate method for posting their content on the Web. They are using Google Docs.