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?

RE: CNN.com - First four charged under 'can spam' law - Apr 28, 2004