FTC Shuts Down Four Spam Rings

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

Via C|Net News.

[snip]

The Federal Trade Commission has shut down four illegal Internet spam
operations, including two that hijacked computers to send sexually
explicit spam.

In the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois,
Cleverlink Trading and its partners were ordered to pay $400,000 made
from sending e-mail that offered the opportunity to "date lonely wives"
and that violated nearly every provision of the Can-Spam Act, the FTC
said in a statement on Thursday.

The Can-Spam Act requires that spam e-mail messages be labeled as ads,
include the sender's postal address, provide an opt-out method, label
sexually explicit material as such, and not show graphic sexual images
in the initially viewable area of the message, among other things.

In another case, the FTC alleged that Zachary Kinion sent spam that
advertised adult sites, mortgage rates and privacy software. It also
said that Kinion paid others to send unsolicited e-mail messages and
sent spam via so-called "zombie" computers without the knowledge of the
PC owners.

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More:
http://news.com.com/2100-1030_3-6115948.html

FTC statement:
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2006/09/spammers.htm

- ferg


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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg(at)netzero.net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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