Anastasios A. Pallas is an IT professor in secondary education in Greece. He is currently finishing his M.Sc. in IT at the University of Paisley, Scotland, in collaboration with the Technological Educational Institution of Pireaus, Greece. Mr. Pallas's research focuses on investigating the spam phenomenon in Greece and evaluating the effectiveness of comparatively unexploited techniques such as spam traps. He has experience consulting on and deploying Internet/intranet-based application projects, and his broad interests include information security, Web services, e-commerce, e-learning, and the social impact of the Internet.