More scams, more spam

It is like today is "scam day" in the news or something. Perhaps it is because of all of these international conferences that are being held on how to stop these scams.
Here we see that the Asia Meeting on eCommerce is discussing how to stop scammers like those in the wake of the tsunami tragedy who played on those who wanted to help.

While I don't think there is a single one of us who wouldn't like to see them stopped, it does make me cringe a bit to see that all of the groups speaking at that conference were the companies who stand to directly benefit from us listening to them on how to stop spam. I suppose that can only be expected at a conference that is after all about eCommerce.
It just makes the cynic in me wonder how much they are interested in stopping the scammers, and how much they are really interested in using FUD to sell more of their products.

Posted by Eric at February 22, 2005 11:58 AM | TrackBack