Spammers have pounded on soaring prices of petrol by offering fake fuel discounts to the US residents.

According to security researchers, the new spam redirects the recipient via a link to a 70% discount offer on every gallon of the liquid fuel, as reported by SCMagazine on May 13, 2008.

The latest Global Internet Security Threat Report by Symantec, the US-based company for computer security, highlights Brazil as the leading country in malicious Internet activity in Latin America, and Argentina as the next largest spam generating country in the region.

The popular social networking site, MySpace, on May 12, 2008, has gained victory in a $230 Million lawsuit it filed against the infamous 'Spam King", Sanford Wallace and his accomplice Walter Rines. MySpace had accused the spammers for sending junk e-mails to its users, and the resultant judgment stood out for being the greatest step ever against spamming operations.

In its recent biannual Internet Security Threat Report, Symantec warns that although the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has significantly advanced in curtailing the volume of phishing and spam attacks, the region in totality, and Saudi Arabia in particular, seems to face a greater threat from organized, international groups of online criminals, as reported by ArabianBusiness on April 15, 2008.

Utah University students, staff and faculty members got e-mail on April 17, 2008, claiming to come from the university office and asking for personal information, including account number.

Phishing is widely used technique of criminals to extract personal information, like user names, credit card number, and passwords of a mail recipient by disguising in the cloak of a reliable entity.

A Raleigh lawyer faces charges of hacking into the official e-mail account belonging to her ex-boyfriend, a senior Wake official, some 1,400 times or more between August and December 2007.

Christina Paulette Medlin, 31, faces legal charges on one count of committing severe crime of tapping government computers. According to her lawyer, the e-mail account was that of Joseph K. Durham, the Deputy County Manager.

User data lost from Auction.co.kr has been posted on the Chinese Websites and made available for sale, raising concerns over possible damage from spam mail or voice phishing. According to South Korea's principal police officials, a theft occurred on the personal data of 10.81 Million users from the well-known Internet shopping site hosted in Korea, as reported by Donga on April 21, 2008.

Security analysts at SophosLabs have disclosed that 92.3% of all messages transmitted in the first quarter of 2008 were unsolicited e-mails. Also, during this time-span, Sophos discovered 23,300 novel spam-related Web pages daily, or one after every three seconds.