Do Spammers Ever Give Up?

 

We've just gone through Christmas and the number of messages from spammers has continued unabated.

Perhaps the odd thing was that I had a large number of Barclays messages on Christmas and Boxing Day. Some were very amateurish and targeted at Woolwich, a Barclays subsidiary, customers.

Typically they are registered to someone in the US. Take missch.biz which is registered to Leesa Christensen with an e-mail address of tom1altman@yahoo.com.

Why do the US authorities allow domain names to be registered to someone who uses an anonymous e-mail address? Probably for the same reason they champion the death penalty!