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No place can spam like South Florida
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP May 08, 2005 12:30pm |
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| Category | Commentary |
| Media | Newspaper - South Florida Sun-Sentinel |
| News Date | Sunday, May 8, 2005 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Together, Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties are home to more spammers than any country on Earth. And it's not just the annoying pitches for mortgages and sex pills. Increasingly, law enforcement officials are finding that junk e-mail is a favored weapon of predators, an easy way for criminals to target a world of potential victims from behind a wall of anonymity.
Why South Florida? Spammers and anti-spam groups cite a combination of reasons. They include the warm weather and laid-back lifestyle, lenient bankruptcy laws, proximity to Internet data centers, a history of telemarketing and e-mail marketing, and the state's longstanding image as a good place to do dirty business.
South Florida is so notorious that some experts attributed a short-term decline in global spam after last year's hurricanes to the assumption that the storms disrupted spammers' operations. |
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