in conjunction with LAP/CNSA Conference

Spam, Lottery Spam and other Advance Fee Frauds - Local Victims, Global Predators

October 27 – 29, 2008, Wiesbaden, Schloss Biebrich

The 6th German Anti Spam Summit took place from October 27th to 29th at Biebrich castle in Wiesbaden, focusing on lottery spam and other advance fee frauds committed via e-mail. Organisers were eco, the Contact Network of Spam Authorities (CNSA), the London Action Plan (LAP), Hessen-IT and ENISA. Sponsors are Microsoft, eleven, Cloudmark, IronPort and clara.net. The first day of the event was reserved exclusively for CNSA/LAP-members’ training. Starting off with a keynote scheduled to be spoken by the CIO of the country of Hessen on Tuesday, the following two days experts from around the globe presented and discussed the latest legal and technical development in the area of Spam. Speakers represented law enforcement agencies, industry, awareness raising organisations and universities. Wednesday’s agenda focused in particular on advance-fee frauds. The event was held in English language.

Slides of selected presentations held at the conference may be requested by registered participants.
Please contact Frank Ackermann, Senior Legal Counsel, eco
frank.ackermann@eco.de, Tel. +49 221 7000 48 - 240