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Vodafone NZ Pulls Ad After Customer Gets Spammed
Advertising can be tough. You’ve got to get something that’s going to make your product stand out from the crowd for the right reasons, rather than just annoying viewers. For Vodafone New Zealand, the plan was to get viewers to text a prominent Kiwi celeb with an on-screen number. The problem arose when those texts started slamming the mobile of one of its customers instead.
All The Spam In The World Makes $200m, Costs Us $20b
We all hate spam. But we figure it must be worth it to someone since there’s so damn much of it. But… apparently not. A new paper from the Journal of Economic Perspectives estimates it brings in a total of $US200 million in revenue worldwide per year. And then the rest of us spend $US20 billion cleaning it up. Ugh.
World’s Third-Largest Spam Botnet Knocked Offline For Good
Salutations, My Dearest One: I am writing to you this blog post with joy and happy feelings in my heart, bringing news that will be of great interest and benefit to you. I write to you now because of the urgency of our situation: the world’s third-largest spam botnet was knocked offline today — for good.
