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Internet Scams and UCSD

Caption: Geoff Voelker and Stefan Savage (left to right) are computer science professors from the UC-San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering. They found striking differences between the infrastructure used to distribute spam and the infrastructure used to host the online scams advertised in these unwanted email messages. This discovery should aid in the fight to reduce spam volume and shut down illegal online businesses and malware sites.

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