Chief Marketer Staff

• Phishing Attacks to Double by Next Year: Report

  Losses from fraudulent e-mail phishing attacks will total $137 million globally in 2004, estimates TowerGroup.

• Kansas Jumps on Canadian Web-Drug Bandwagon

  Kansas residents will be able to buy lower-cost prescription drugs from Canada and Europe under a new program from Gov. Kathleen Sebelius.

• News Briefs

  COOLBRANDS INTERNATIONAL, INC.: has entered into four new brand licenses for new frozen snacks to be distributed in the U.S. next year. They are: Care Bears, Justice League (including Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman), No Pudge! and Snapple. …

• Collegiate Pacific to Acquire Orlando Team Sports

  Collegiate Pacific has signed a letter of intent to acquire Orlando Team Sports (OTS), a regional distributor of team sporting goods.

• MarketPlace Direct Launches Online Fulfillment Service

  MarketPlace Direct Inc. has launched Fulfillment Caf

• Short Cuts

  AvVaa World Health Care Products Inc. has kicked off
  a commercial and informational Web site http://www.help4skincare.com.

• List and Database News

  Mailing lists for rent.

• DMA Shakes Up Its Executive Staff

  John A. Greco Jr., new CEO of the Direct Marketing Association, today announced his much-anticipated executive shake-up.

• Pushing the Envelope: My Civic Duty

  As I write this column, it

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