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Re: FTC Slams Spammer in Pocketbook -- Hard
From: "Stephen J. Smoogen" <smooge () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:04:38 -0700
On 3/24/06, Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com> wrote:
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Richard E. Perlotto II wrote:How can you be prohibited from unlawful practices... when they were already unlawful?You might be doing something that you didn't know, and still perhaps aren't sure, is illegal.
The FTC does 99% of its work through the Civil courts which basically means that you end up with these strange statements because of the interlay between Civil Courts and Criminal courts.
Richard Fergie wrote:Via The FTC. [snip] An Internet marketer will pay a $900,000 civil penalty for violating the CAN-SPAM Act, the largest penalty yet for illegal spam, according to the Federal Trade Commission. The company also is permanently prohibited from its unlawful practices, according to a consent decree signed by the company. According to the FTC, since July 2002, San Francisco-based Jumpstart Technologies LLC, has operated as an Internet marketer, providing direct marketing opportunities for its advertising partners and collecting marketing information to sell to third parties. The FTC's complaint alleges that in its FreeFlixTix promotion, Jumpstart violated the law by disguising its commercial e-mails as personal messages, and by misleading consumers as to the terms and conditions of the promotion. [snip] More: http://ftc.gov/opa/2006/03/freeflixtix.htm - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list._______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list._______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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Current thread:
- FTC Slams Spammer in Pocketbook -- Hard Fergie (Mar 23)
- Re: FTC Slams Spammer in Pocketbook -- Hard Richard E. Perlotto II (Mar 23)
- Re: FTC Slams Spammer in Pocketbook -- Hard Valdis . Kletnieks (Mar 24)
- Re: FTC Slams Spammer in Pocketbook -- Hard Drsolly (Mar 24)
- Re: FTC Slams Spammer in Pocketbook -- Hard Stephen J. Smoogen (Mar 24)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: FTC Slams Spammer in Pocketbook -- Hard Fergie (Mar 24)
- Re: FTC Slams Spammer in Pocketbook -- Hard Richard E. Perlotto II (Mar 23)