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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. FP? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    WOOHOO!

  2. FLIP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First logged in Post!

  3. The Govt. doesn't like spam that exposes them! by crow_t_robot · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    On August 3rd, 1977 the 95th U.S. Congress opened hearings into the reported abuses concerning the CIA's TOP SECRET mind control research program code named MK-Ultra. On February 8th, 1988, a top-level MK-Ultra victim, Cathy O'Brien, was covertly rescued from her mind control enslavement by Intelligence insider Mark Phillips. Their seven year pursuit of Justice was stopped FOR REASONS OF NATIONAL SECURITY. Trance-Formation of America exposes the truth behind this covert government program and its ultimate goal: psychological control of a nation. TRANCE-FORMATION OF AMERICA is the first documented autobiography of a victim of government mind control. Cathy O'Brien is the only vocal and recovered survivor of the Central Intelligence Agency's MK-Ultra Project Monarch operation. Tracing her path from child pornography and recruitment into the program to serving as a top-level intelligence agent and White House sex slave, TRANCE Formation of America is a definitive eye-witness account of government corruption that implicates some of the most prominent figures in U.S. politics.

  4. Hey! Brits! by ringbarer · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Who got to eat the Queen Mum's Easter Eggs?

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    "Why did they cancel my favorite Sci-Fi show? I downloaded ALL the episodes!"
  5. Re:Hey! Brits! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hey, Ringpiece! No-one over here gives two fucks about the royal family!! If you want to troll us, try something original!!

    http://www.observer.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,67 31 67,00.html

  6. Re:Hey! Brits! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hi! Please die, thanks.

  7. email spam? what about the stuff i get in post? by atari2600 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I actually receive less spam online than i do offline - sounds weird i know and i dont use any filters...How do i do it? - the way most of you do it?...use forwarding and make use of my domain name email service.
    Now what do i do about postal spam - take credit card offers for instance - the law says im responsible for such material - so i should make sure i shouldnt be getting them...ha! what was that and the spam i get i spend a good time tearing it down and filling up my bin
    Hold on what am i saying here? The time i took my telephone service (Verizon) the guy noted my name with a typo and i had my first bill with a typo - a month later wonder of wonders i had a Viagra and stimulate your sex drive envelope with the same typo in the name :O WTF - that was nothing - a few weeks later (im a male) i had a big cover for Ms.Atari2.6K with the same typo in the name - sigh. Now what?
    Atari2.6K

  8. Re:Enlarge your penis by fabiolrs · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    give me a rope and a 1 ton stone, then we climb the highest building in the world and ill make your penis a hundred times larger than that!

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    Fabio - Sumare/Sao Paulo/Brazil/South America/Earth/Solar System/Milky Way/Universe
    http://www.morroida.com.br