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CNN.com - First four charged under 'can spam' law - Apr 28, 2004
by Decius at 11:03 am EDT, Apr 29, 2004 |
] U.S. authorities charged four people in Detroit on
] Wednesday with e-mailing fraudulent sales pitches for
] weight-loss products, the first criminal prosecutions
] under the government's new "can spam" legislation. Turns out this is an FTC investigation for fraud and the Spam charges are just an add on. This probably doesn't mean they've actually started enforcing these laws in general. |
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RE: CNN.com - First four charged under 'can spam' law - Apr 28, 2004
by bucy at 1:19 pm EDT, Apr 29, 2004 |
Decius wrote:
] ] U.S. authorities charged four people in Detroit on
] ] Wednesday with e-mailing fraudulent sales pitches for
] ] weight-loss products, the first criminal prosecutions
] ] under the government's new "can spam" legislation.
]
] Turns out this is an FTC investigation for fraud and the Spam
] charges are just an add on. This probably doesn't mean they've
] actually started enforcing these laws in general. Again, most of the spammers tactics probably already constitute
fraud ... why hasn't the FTC been prosecuting spammers under
existing fraud statutes? |
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