FC: California attorney general is looking for a few noxious spammers

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

See related Politech message:

"Alleged spammer claims California anti-spam law is unconstitutional" 
http://www.politechbot.com/p-03114.html

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Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 20:37:50 -0700
To: declan () well com
From: dano <dano () well com>
Subject: Calif AG going after Calif spammers?

http://caag.state.ca.us/_misc/content/spam.htm

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   SPAM MAIL

   The Attorney General's Office is looking for examples of spam e-mails
   being sent to consumers in violation of California law, particularly
   from persons operating in California.
   While we have valuable leads from spam posted in various newsgroups
   and mailing lists, we would like to obtain certain examples directly
   from individuals who would be prepared to verify, in a written
   statement under oath, information about the spam they received.

     Please send your examples (as attachments, with all header
     information) to:
     caspam () cadoj samspade org.
     If you prefer to submit spam samples in printed form, you can
     download and print our complaint form for that purpose, available
     at:
     http://caag.state.ca.us/contact/unsolicited_email.pdf. If you are
     submitting spam on paper, please be sure to include all headers.

   The Attorney General's Office is looking for samples of spam that meet
   all of the following conditions:
    1. You are the recipient of the spam and you are a resident of
       California.
    2. The spam was delivered via servers located in California
       (sender's, recipient's or intermediary server will suffice).
    3. There is some indication that the spammer is operating in
       California, such as a California telephone number or address for
       orders. If you can identify the spammer and have information from
       other sources showing that the spammer is in California, that will
       also work.
    4. The spam fails to comply with the statutory restrictions. To
       comply, the unsolicited advertising emails' subject line must
       begin with "ADV:", the first text in the message must offer a
       toll-free number or functioning email address for removal of the
       recipient from further unsolicited emails, and that statement must
       be in a type size as large as most of the other text.

   [Note: The statute also makes it an offense to fail to honor a request
   for removal included as outlined above, and we would like to get
   evidence of specific instances of that involving California
   residents.]
   To view California law governing spam, see Section 17538.4 of the
   Business & Professions Code.




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