In the fight against spam, Asia seems to be losing. Over the past few years, servers based in China and South Korea have become major sources of unwanted e-mail as spammers take advantage of loose regulation, low costs, and lax security.
Some of the spammers are locals, others are Americans who find it easy to send out junk e-mails by taking advantage of high-speed networks in Asian countries. A lot hail from Russia and elsewhere in Europe. If spam were still largely confined to nuisance e-mails touting low-cost loans and inexpensive Viagra, it would be one thing, but more and more it’s linked to hacking and phishing.
U.S. companies have been trying to work with Asians to crack down on the spam trade. In September, 2004, executives from companies such as Microsoft, Time Warner’s AOL, and Yahoo! traveled to the region to talk with Chinese officials about joint efforts to fight the problem. At the time, industry experts were hopeful that new legislation being pushed in Beijing and Seoul would help.
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