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The Law and Spam Email Abuse

This page presesents information on the law and spam email abuse.

    w3reports.com. May 7, 2004.
    The Federal Trade Commission has settled charges that Brian Westby and Martijn P. Bevelander employed spam that used deceptively bland subject lines, false return addresses, and empty “reply-to” links to expose unsuspecting consumers, including children, to sexually explicit material. The agency alleged that Westby and Bevelander used the spam in an attempt to drive business to adult Web sites titled “Married But Lonely.” The settlement bars the use of false subject lines and false header information in e-mail and requires that the defendants give up $112,500 in ill-gotten gains. The activity in this case predates the CAN-SPAM Act, which became effective on January 1, 2004.
         FTC Settles with Deceptive Spammers

    mondaq.com. March 4, 2004.
    In our previous article, The Spam Battleground, published November 07 2003, we reported on the ever-growing problem of spam (unsolicited, commercial e-mail messages) and the efforts being made on the technological, legislative and litigation fronts to reduce the spam problem.1 The purpose of this article is to provide the reader with information regarding the federal CAN-SPAM Act that was signed by the President on December 16, 2003, and generally became effective on January 1, 2004.2
    The Act does not prohibit the sending of spam itself; however, it does prohibit a laundry list of favorite tactics used by those who send spam.
         United States: An Overview of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003