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Spam costs the U.S. forty billion dollars a year. Emails can contain bogus deals and offers that can cost you time and money.

Cyber security expert Brian Krebs writes about the criminal masterminds behind the largest spam operations in his new book: “Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime from Global Epidemic to your Front Door.”