Cybercrime

Unsolicited bulk email ('spam')

Traditionally, there were few controls on advertising conducted by mail and direct marketers inflicted a barrage of advertising material on unsuspecting, and often unwilling, recipients. The electronic equivalent, known as 'spam', entails the same idea carried out through the use of Email. Its future equivalents may be even more invasive with self-opening attachments which could carry viruses into the recipient's computer hard drive causing damage and loss.

Source: Smith R 2000. Deceptive and misleading on-line advertising and business practices, paper presented at the Communications research forum 2000, 4-5 Oct 2000

• See also:
• Internet regulation
• Sales and investment scams
• Practical prevention guides

• Australia
• Other countries and international

Australia

• Phishing
  Australian Institute of Criminology, 2005
• Preventing spam
  AICrime reduction matters, 2005
• Reducing the risks of 'phishing'
  Australian Institute of Criminology, 2005
• Spam : nuisance or menace, prevention or cure?
  Rob McCusker. Australian Institute of Criminology, 2005
• Cybercrime : advance fee scams in-country and across borders
  Pauline C Reich. Crime in Australia : international connections conference, 2004
• Spam canned : new laws for Australia (PDF 54kB)
  David Vaile. Internet law bulletin, 2004
• A spammer in the works (PDF 251kB)
  Paul Wood. MessageLabs, 2004
• A typology of online child pornography offending
  Tony Krone. Australian Institute of Criminology, 2004. See also fact sheet: A typology of online child pornography offending
• Australia and New Zealand spam regulation
  Caslon Analytics, 2003
• Computer crime and compromised commerce (PDF 285kB)
  Matthew L James and Brian E Murray. Australian Parliamentary Library research note, 2003
• Provision of the Spam Bill 2003 and the Spam (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2003
  Parliament of Australia. Senate Environment, Communications, Information Technology and the Arts Committee, 2003
• Spam final report
  Australian Government. National Office for the Information Economy, 2003
• Deceptive and misleading on-line advertising and business practices
  Russell Smith. Communications research forum, 2000
• Nigerian advance fee fraud
  Russell G Smith, Michael N Holmes and Philip Kaufman. Australian Institute of Criminology, 1999
• Paedophile internet activity
  Patrick Forde and Andrew Patterson. Australian Institute of Criminology, 1998
• Spam and internet security information
  Australian Communications and Media Authority
• Spam
  Australian Government Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts
• Spam Act 2003
• CAUBE.AU - Coalition Against Unsolicited Bulk Email, Australia

Other countries and international

• Conference on email and anti-spam
  Annual conference. Full-text papers from previous conferences are available
• Spam laws | Articles
  Compiled by David E Sorkin
• Soaking in spam
  Brad Stone. Computer Crime Research Center, 2004
• Untouchable? A Canadian perspective on the anti-spam battle (PDF 236kB)
  Michael Geist, 2004