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Alleged FL Spammers Agree To $1 Million Bonds

Posted by timothy on from the big-guilty-signs-around-their-necks dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Well, in this story in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, two men were nailed by the FTC for sending out spam just to try to collect valid e-mail addresses and social security numbers, for resale to others. Another good reason just to simply forward the spam to uce@ftc.gov."

3 of 8 comments (clear)

  1. No Penalty by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    These guys agreed to obey the law and "A $57,500 judgment against Roth was suspended." How will this stop future spammers? We need jail time. This wasn't even a slap on the wrist. They only have to pay the bond if they want to spam again. This is a green light to anyone who wants to spam. If you get caught, there's no penalty.

    1. Re:No Penalty by OneFix+at+Work · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Not really...as it stands, there's zero cost (besides bandwidth) for them to send out these e-mails...Imposing these fines increases the costs for them to continue this behaviour. Yes, they COULD do it again, but there are continuously diminishing returns for this behaviour...just wait and see what happens if they do it again...there will probably be jail time involved if it happens again...

  2. Is that the best that we can do? by doug · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is insane. They committed fraud and don't get the book thrown at them. If it had been mail instead of email, they'd be on the way to prison right now.

    While I think that the victims are foolish (the old rule about something being too good to be true holds), that doesn't mean that these two bozos deserve to get off the hook so lightly.

    - doug