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FTC Encourages Consumers to Forward Them Spam

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the solicited-unsolicited-email dept.

Burl Ives writes "See this CNN Article. 'The FTC encourages consumers to forward any spam they receive to the e-mail address uce@ftc.gov'. I'd say if they've posted their e-mail on the web, they are probably getting as much as the rest of us already, which isn't to say I'm not hoping to see some discussion of using the statistical spam sorters to auto forward a lot to them in encouragement..." I've been using SpamAssassin for some time now with excellent results. Perhaps now I need to have my spam folder auto-forward to the FTC as well.

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  1. What will they do? by pgrote · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I like the idea of forwarding the spam, but the question remains what will they do with it?

    For instance, Yahoo Mail has a feature where you can forward Spam to their Yahoo! Customer Care department. Yet, you don't know what happens.

    I don't know if this is a "feel good" attempt at showing that they are handling spam or they actually run some super secret program and change their spam variables.

    I'd like to see what the FTC is doing with the spam sent to them. Are they going to start a black list? Will they take action against the spammers?