In some interesting coverage from the regular media, this article discusses spam and its use by the secondary market to push items in game. It's quite a good read from a regular media source that usually wouldn’t cover this type of issue.

It's no longer a news flash that there are companies employing people to play online games and then reselling the virtual resources that they gather.

But the business of selling items that only exist inside computer games has grown more competitive, leading to some very aggressive marketing that is both intrusive and annoying.

You can read the whole article here: Spam bothers all — even gamers.