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Biggest Pump-and-Dump Scam Ever Spikes Spam 445%

By Lisa Vaas
August 10, 2007

The largest spam scam ever tracked increased the spam count by 445 percent in one day.

The largest spam attack ever tracked wound down Aug. 9 after delivering enough big, fat PDF files to increase total spam size 445 percent in one day, according to Postini, a hosted e-mail filtering company that's been tracking the attack since it started Aug. 7.

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