For a while, spam seemed to be fading away. The 2003 CAN-SPAM Act mandated unsubscribe links and criminalized attempts to hide the sender’s identity, while sophisticated filters buried unwanted messages in out-of-sight spam folders. But it’s 2017, and spam has clawed itself back from the grave.



It shows up on social media and dating sites as bots hoping to lure you into downloading malware or clicking an affiliate link. It creeps onto your phone as text messages and robocalls that ring you five times a day about luxury cruises and fictitious tax bills. “There is no recourse for me,” lamented Troy Doliner, a student in Boston who gets robocalls every day. “I am harassed by a faceless entity that I cannot track down.”

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