FTC, California Attorney General Halt Illegal Spam Operation

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via The FTC.

[snip]

The Federal Trade Commission and the Attorney General of California have brought a permanent halt to an operation that 
sent millions of spam messages that violated federal and state laws. The settlement will bar future violations of the 
spam laws, will require the operators to monitor affiliates closely to assure that they are not violating state and 
federal laws, and requires that they give up approximately $475,000 in ill-gotten gains.

In April 2005, the FTC and the Attorney General of California charged that the defendants used third-party affiliates 
or “button pushers” to send spam hawking mortgage loans and other products and services. The operation used hyperlinks 
in the spam to refer consumers to Web sites operated by the defendants. Consumers forwarded more than 1.8 million of 
the defendants' e-mail messages to the FTC. Those messages demonstrated that the defendants were violating almost every 
provision of the CAN-SPAM Act, the law enforcers said.

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More here:
http://ftc.gov/opa/2006/04/optin.htm

- ferg


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"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/


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