FOX News - ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — E-mail scams seek to separate people from their money by promising a share of unclaimed lottery riches, bounty from a dead fugitive, work-at-home schemes and other enticements. But an Ocean County man recently got an e-mail …

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Bloomberg - Oct. 4 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission expanded a seven-month crackdown on the use of “spam'’ e-mails to inflate stock prices, halting trading in shares of three additional companies. Alliance Transcription Services Inc …

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Times Online - The scourge of spam has spread to mobile phones, with Britons being bombarded by more than one million unwanted text messages every day. A report from uSwitch.com, the consumer website, also showed that security groups are losing their battle with …

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Forbes - WASHINGTON (Thomson Financial) - The Securities and Exchange Commission today suspended stock trading in three over-the-counter companies for 10 days in order to blunt attempts to talk up the value of the companies’ stock through email spam. The SEC …

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ZDNet Australia - Yahoo upgraded its system on Thursday in the US with technology — dubbed “DomainKeys” — designed to block spam and other fraudulent e-mails that look like they come from eBay and PayPal but don’t. The system works by verifying the domain of the …

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San Diego Union-Tribune - WASHINGTON – The Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday suspended trading in three companies as part of its anti-spam initiative, which the agency said is deterring e-mail campaigns that defraud investors. The SEC earlier this year launched an …

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Information Week - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said the glitch that turned an e-mail list into an out-of-control social networking experience Wednesday has been fixed. The New York Times reported Thursday that a North Carolina businessman was responding …

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Showing it is making good on a promise six months ago to crack down on spam intended to take advantage of unsuspecting investors, the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday suspended trading in three stocks it said were “susceptible” to e-mail promotion schemes.

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The Securities and Exchange Commission said Thursday that its seven-month crackdown on e-mail spam linked to stock fraud is already delivering dividends and protecting unwary investors from being duped.

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has suspended the stock trading of three companies that haven’t provided adequate information about themselves to the public, making them susceptible to spam-based stock scams, the agency said.

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