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First Four People Charged Under CAN-SPAM Act

Posted by michael on from the world's-smallest-violin dept.

friedo writes "Four people in Detroit have been charged with emailing fraudulent sales pitches under the new federal CAN-SPAM Law. 'They were accused of disguising their identities in hundreds of thousands of sales pitches and delivering e-mails by bouncing messages through unprotected relay computers on the Internet.'"

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  1. Re:Yee Haw by mumblestheclown · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    hey! You can't say that! this is slashdot, where "conventional" sociology, psychology, economics, and so forth are looked down upon because those are soft things thought about by people who don't know vi or even recompiled their kernel!

    I mean, if those "normals" can't even do those simple tasks, then we all know that the typing-speed back of the envelope "out of the box" thinking by slashdot geeks is guaranteed to be more enlightened and superior.

  2. Re:Hit hard! by tehcyder · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    Er, I thought it was part of the US's hallowed Constitution not to have cruel and unusual punishment?

    Oh, I forgot, you only invoke the Constitution when it defends the right to bear arms.

    Apologies.

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  3. Re:Why not go after the buyers too? by tomstdenis · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The point is they need to educate themselves. The computer is not something you can just half-hazardly point and click then whine when things go sour.

    It's like driving. You gotta take tests before you get on the road.

    By your logic people shouldn't take driving classes and when they smash into things they are "victims" for not knowing better.

    I mean it's generally safe to assume 100% of all solicitations from companies you don't recognize are spams. I don't get any email from Intel or Walmart asking me to check out their new specials...

    So why pretend as if people are legitimately duped by this?

    I mean there is a difference between exploiting a bug in IE/Mozilla/whatever so that https://localcomputerstorename.com directs to a phisher site without anyone noticing [by checking cert, location bar, details] and someone just randomly clicking on a link in an email sent from a gibberish email address.

    It's like complaining about low quality crack from the guy off the corner. Well maybe you shouldn't buy crack [at all but in this case] from the guy off the corner!

    Overall these spams are preying on peoples stupidity and fear. They fear if they don't take HGH, Vicodin, Xanax and Gingo all at the same time their Karma life force will dimminsh their Chi and give them indigestion or something...

    Buying stuff from spammers is supporting spammers.

    You don't support spammers do you?

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  4. yes, but... by period3 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    will there be a public execution?