Vioxx topples porn as spam king
 

might have been posted before........oh well

NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Porn ads slipped down the list of top junk e-mails in 2004, replaced by those hawking online Vioxx prescriptions, ID theft scams and stock pick information, America Online said.

Although "HOT LESBIAN ACTION" made the list of most frequently sent junk e-mails, or spam, lurid displays of pornography are now more easily blocked by filters offered by AOL and other Internet service providers.

The types of spam have also changed considerably and now feature deceptively simple text messages and Web addresses that link to sites, according to AOL, the world's largest Internet service provider and a unit of Time Warner Inc. CNN.com is also a unit of Time Warner Inc.

Junk e-mail senders have also gotten more sophisticated and are now generally controlled by several top "king pin spammers," the company said.

AOL on Tuesday said junk e-mails received by its subscribers had dropped 75 percent largely due to better built-in filters and blocks, based on a poll of complaints it compiled.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/interne...eut/index.html

I've been getting about 20 a day

I am so tierd of all that junk

How great.... spamming a withdrawn med..

Vioxx was taken off the market here in the US. They have found that it fuck's your heart up.


:disgust

isnt vioxx off the market? how are people making money off spammin it with its harmful effect getting constant media exposure? I get tons more viagra spam then anything else btw.

it's sad when my mailbox is 75% spam. if I get one more penis enlargement spam I am going to scream

yep.
Merck Announces Voluntary Worldwide
Withdrawal of VIOXX®
WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J., Sept. 30, 2004?Merck & Co., Inc. today announced a voluntary worldwide withdrawal of VIOXX® (rofecoxib), its arthritis and acute pain medication. The company?s decision, which is effective immediately, is based on new, three-year data from a prospective, randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial, the APPROVe (Adenomatous Polyp Prevention on VIOXX) trial.

something like

"Buy Vioxx Cheap"

or

"Vioxx Users Know Your Legal Rights"

?

it was only a matter of time really

I figured them damn rolex spams were more, I get more of those fucking things than anything else.

I wouldn't want to be the last guy standing in AOL's inbox :warning