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First Four People Charged Under CAN-SPAM Act
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.'"
"No one's done this before," Feinberg said. "It will be fun -- not for my client but for me professionally." I wonder whose side the Attourney really is on.
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The Lins and Chung could not be located at any of the addresses or telephone numbers listed in the court documents.
...all one hundred thousand of them.
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I guess they're wondering if the criminal charges have an 'opt-out' list....
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How's about opening up a new e-mail account, and hooking them up to an electric chair that delivers 1 volt per spam mail it gets...
'Don't worry' said the trees when they saw the axe coming, 'The handle is one of us.'
Officials at the Federal Trade Commission, who planned to announce the arrests in Washington on Thursday, told U.S. postal investigators they had received more than 10,000 complaints about unwanted e-mails sent by the company. So they only waited a half hour before signing a warrant?
Can you can-can-spam? can you can-can-spam!
Hangin's too good for 'em.
Burrrnin's too good for 'em...
(T)He(y) should be torn into little pieces and buried ALIVE!!!!
I'LL KILL HIIM! KILL!! STERRRRNNNNN!!!
they can't find three of them.
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First Four People Charged Under CAN-SPAM Act
You're giving the spammers too much credit.
If they are found guilty, then this is a victory for all free, law-abiding Internet users everywhere.
This sends a message to not abuse the system and violate the laws of this great land. I'm proud of the US Government for enforcing the laws and standing up for all people everywhere.
Sweet!
As long as they don't have to send everyone an apology...
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And four executed.
So all these Chinese servers sending out spam turn out to be a three Chinese guys in Detroit. :-)
Keep the Classic Slashdot.
Let's hope they're inundated with "get out of jail free" emails for their eternity.
They don't seem to have any problem sending my kids donkey porn. What makes you think they wouldn't rape my kids? A suitable sentence would be chemical castration. That'd get them using that penis enlargement cream.
DJ245 writes "Two people at Slashdot have been charged with writing bad slashdot stories under the new Slashdot story guidelines. 'They are accused of using improper verb tense and not putting in a final conspiracy or troll wibble at the conclusion.'"
Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.
Here's hoping that he sees this as his big chance to try the "insult the judge to his face every fifteen seconds" strategy he daydreamed about in law school.
/. If the government wants us to respect the law, it should set a better example.
Nude.
Seems only fair that the convicted felons have to do serious time.
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Perhaps we could have them write:
"I am sorry for wasting people's time and resourses." Maybe 10 to the power of # spams sent.
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...I live in detroit...
oh, just a second, someones at the door...
Proceeded through, and I finally came to see the very last man. I walked in,
Sat down, after a whole big thing there. I walked up, and I said, "What do you
Want?" He said, "Kid, we only got one question: Have you ever been arrested?"
And I proceeded to tell him the story of Alice's Resteraunt Massacre with full
Orchestration and five-part harmony and stuff like that, and other phenomenon.
He stopped me right there and said, "Kid, have you ever been to court?"
And I proceeded to tell him the story of the twenty-seven 8 x 10 colored
Glossy pictures with the circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of
Each one--
He stopped me right there and said, "Kid I want you to go over and sit down on
That bench that says 'Group W.' Now, kid!"
And I walked over to the bench there, and there's--Group W is where they put
You if you may not be MORAL enough to join the army after committin' your
Special crime.
There was all kinds of mean, nasty and ugly-lookin' people on the bench there
--there was mother rapers--father-stabbers, father-rapers! FATHER-RAPERS
Sittin' right there on the bench next to me!
And they was mean and nasty and ugly and horrible and crime fightin' guys were
Sittin' there on the bench, and the meaniest, ugliest, nastiest one--the
Meanest father-raper of them all--was comin' over to me.
And he was mean and nasty and horrible and all kinds of things, and he sat
Down next to me. He said, "Kid, what'd you get?"
I said, "I didn't get nothin'. I had to pay fifty dollars and pick up the
Garbage." He said, "What were you arrested FOR, kid?" and I said,
"Litterin'."
And they all moved away from me on the bench there, with the hairy eyeball and
All kinds of mean, nasty things, till I said, "And creatin' a nuisance."
And they all came back, shook my hand and we had a great time on the bench
Talkin' about crime, mother-stabbin', father-rapin', --all kinds of groovy
Things that we was talkin' about on the bench, and everything was fine.
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos