scamosphere

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

in the latest Atlantic Monthly (for June 2007), starting on p. 78, a
funny and thought-provoking article by Ron Rosenbaum ("How to trick
an online scammer into carving a computer out of wood, and other
ingenious acts of cyber-vengeance") about "scam-baiters", who take on
scammers.  which begins:

A vicious and intriguing cyber-war has broken out in the Spamosphere,
or more specifically in what I'd call the "Scamosphere."

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Rosenbaum seems to have been the coiner, in this article.

arnold

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