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FTC Goes After Spammers

Posted by timothy on from the not-enough-iron-in-that-velvet-glove dept.

klaun writes: "Yahoo has an article about the FTC launching a crackdown on deceptive unsolicited email. Basically they are after scammers offering easy money quick, not the average 'get porn here' type of spam. There is more info at the in a press release at the FTC's website." TheGreatGraySkwid amplifies, saying that this story "tells of an FTC crackdown on Spammers, that had resulted in charges (settled) against 7 chain-letter ring spammers, and several pending cases. I know I could use some Spam relief..." The settlement, unfortunately, isn't exactly stern stuff: the seven spammers "agreed to refrain from participating in deceptive schemes in the future, or lying about the legality or potential earnings from any such schemes."

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  1. Normally, a cease agreement is sufficient by sphealey · · Score: 1, Troll
    In the normal world, a cease and desist agreement with a federal agency is enough to get a person or organization to stop doing something. However, Microsoft had an agreement with the Justice Department not to break any more anti-trust laws and we can see how well that one got enforced. So I guess the precedent for the information processing industyr is set...

    sPh

  2. Sorry, I don't see what's wrong with it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    People advertise all over the place with similar scams.. TV, papers posted on street signs and grocery stores.. How is the net any different? Free speech motherfuckers. If the government goes after us, we will go after them.

  3. I never really had that problem... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    No really, I lie and register under false names every thirty seconds so most of the stuff lands up in dozens of my bogus mail accounts.