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FTC vs Spammers

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the vs-the-spam-kings dept.

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)."

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  1. Government in action by rcathcart · · Score: 5, Funny

    after receiving about 46,000 complaints

    You've got to wonder why they didn't wait for 100,000.
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    1. Re:Government in action by Rick.C · · Score: 5, Funny
      You've got to wonder why they didn't wait for 100,000.

      Thank God they didn't!

      I don't think I could have typed another 54,000.
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  2. Lonely by The+Bungi · · Score: 5, Funny
    The FTC accused Brian D. Westby, of suburban St. Louis, of using the e-mail spam operation to drive business to an adult Web site called "Married But Lonely."

    Hopefully Mr. Westby will heretofore be "Lonely with Guido" in a minimum security facility for at least a few years.

    We can only hope.

  3. Deceptive Subject Lines?? by ToadSprocket · · Score: 5, Funny
    When consumers opened the e-mail messages, they were immediately subjected to sexually explicit solicitations

    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.

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  4. Re:It's a shame by ralico · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, if they did, it would be a new avenue for pr0n spam, "Get Free pics of spammers getting poiunded in prison..."

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  5. I found someone who actually reads spam by select+*+from · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.