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Feds Cracking the Whip on Spammers

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the little-to-the-left-please dept.

Britano writes "Fox News is reporting that the FTC has started to go after spammers and online scammers. So the governement has finally started on the side of the consumer. "The Federal Trade Commission announced Tuesday that is has created a nationwide task force that has already brought 63 law enforcement actions against Web-based scams ranging from auction frauds to bogus cancer-curing sites." Hey, this way we don't have to spend our own money on fighting this problem!"

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  1. We need to whip them, into shape by Ukab+the+Great · · Score: 5, Funny

    Shape them up. Get them straight. We need to go forward and move ahead. Try to detect spam. It's not too late to whip them. Whip them good.

  2. Re:mailto:UCE@FTC.GOV by The+G · · Score: 5, Funny

    UCE@FTC.GOV

    Excellent. Now I'll just provide that address to all of those "you must provide your email address -- not that we'd ever spam you..." registration-required sites.
    --G