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FTC vs Spammers
binaryDigit writes "The San Jose Mercury News has an article on the FTC getting ready to take action on an (alleged) spammer. 'The Federal Trade Commission said today that after receiving about 46,000 complaints it had asked a federal judge to halt the operation.' Too bad it took 46000 complaints to prompt some action, but at least some action is being taken. The FTC will focus on the "deception" involved (innocent and misleading subject lines, bogus (but real) from/reply to addresses, etc)."
after receiving about 46,000 complaints
You've got to wonder why they didn't wait for 100,000.Microsoft please hi
It's a shame that nowhere in the article does the FTC even imply that the spammer will be sent to a federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison.
evil adrian
Hopefully Mr. Westby will heretofore be "Lonely with Guido" in a minimum security facility for at least a few years.
We can only hope.
...if we get 46,000 complaints about Rick Berman, the FTC will take some action!
Your paranoia is about as subtle as the alien probe in your neck.
Y'know, it's funny how while laws might require them to have an address to contact to become unsubscribed from the list, I'm wondering where the enforcement is. Or, where they're required to have a working address?
Awk! Pieces of eight. Pieces of eight. Pieces of seven... ERROR: General Protection Fault. [Paroty Error.]
Oh cmon, these people are so picky. What sort of shut-in do you have to be to consider sex with dogs and horses "sexually explicit"?
Sheesh.
If this article confuses you, don't worry. It was posted yesterday in a much clearer fashion.
> quite obvious that people are not being adiquetly represented by our government...
quite agree, lets take all that money being obviously wasted on pointless public education and use it to erradicate spam -- yeah, good point.
... but the other 54,000 complaints turned out to be spam.
Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise. - William Shakespeare
At least Ashcroft hasn't labeled spammers as enemy combatants engaged in cyberterrorism and shipped them all off to Guantonomo Bay without a trial -- yet.
Not yet is right -- what if those spammers are trying to sell Weapons of Ass Destruction?
evil adrian
Okay, so my bash script was responsible for 32,767 of those, who was the other guy?
If you outlaw spam, only criminals will have spam. They can take my spam from me when they pry it from my cold, dead hands.
The article didn't mention how many minutes it took for the FTC to get these 46k complaints...
Hey Malda, why didn't you convert your patent encumbered gifs to png?
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
Ah, I guess the scare halted all the porn emails I've been getting on hotmail.
This happened about 2 weeks ago.
Our internal email in our office scans incoming and outgoing mail for viruses, spam, etc. Some spam slips through. In this case it was one of the numerous increase penile length spams.
When an email that is sent out and is blocked for some reason we are automatically notified. In this case someone forwarded the penile lotion lengther spam back to his home account so presumably he could read it later at home and perhaps try the product. This time it actually caught the spam going out when he tried forwarding it.
This "someone" was the president of our company. So far he hasn't asked us why the email he forwarded didn't go through. Of course we'll know if he eventually got it to go through when he starts wearing a loin cloth to work.
Some people consider this to be a nice surpise. "Oh look! It's porn and here I thought it was something about my resume". Then their spirits are lifted for a short while!
:)
Back in the land of reality this spammer should burn in hell
"I believe in everything in moderation. Including moderation." -Dean DeLeo, Stone Temple Pilots
It only takes that many complaints for the FTC to do something about a Spammer? Geeze... Thats not alot.. Should be Soo easy to wipe out the big Spam kings if it only takes 46,000 complaints to the FTC... considering there are Willions of people that it pisses off enough to do something about it... Not many know what to do about it... I Guess the answer is Complain to the FTC!
Who needs WiFi when we can have Packet Over Sheep! http://datacomm.org/PoS-InternetDraft.txt
I doubt anyone in prison really cares about spamming. They'd probably be like, "You got sent to prison for throwing meat at people? wtf".
I think it would be more like this: "I don't give a flying fuck what you're in here for.. give me your Cocktail FRUIT!
Too bad it took 46000 complaints to prompt some action
Here at home, I usually average about 74,000 complaints before I get any action. *sigh*
They're not going after the spammer, they're going after the person who sent them 46,000 messages.
Who would win this election: Andrew Weiner vs Andrew Weiner's weiner.