The defendant Jeffrey B. Goodin faces up to 101 years of imprisonment. By sending mass mails, especially phishing mails, this 45 year-old took the Californian Bank for a ride by stealing sensitive credit card data. Since then, the US Justice has implemented a rigid set of anti-spam rules (CAN-SPAM Act), makin life harder for potential spammers. Even Viagra advertisements can earn spammers a long prison sentence or a hefty fine-good news as the majority of spam originates from America

However, till now the American war against spam terror has been ineffective-spam statistics have in fact increased. On an average the amount of undesired advertisement mails doing the rounds of the Internet is between 90 and 95 percent of all the mails, according to Rene Wienholtz, chairperson of the computing center of the Webhosters Strato The reason for the increase: spammers have resorted to smarter techniques. Instead of simple text messages, spammers now pack their advertisements with pictures. Many of

the popular text-based content filters that succeeded in protecting mail clients are oblivious to picture-based spam, letting them in unquestioned. OCR filters (Optical Character Recognition) is not really suitable as it it requires too much computing power and would make your mail delivery take ages. Just think-severa SPs filter anywhere between 65 to 90 million mails each month

If your inbox is spammed, it not only costs time, it is also extremely annoying. Spam is also dangerous, considering the number of viruses that make their way through e-mail. So the only way out is to declare all-out war against spam! We show you how, using a defensive and offensive methodology.