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InternetNews September 14, 2006 Roy Mark	'Lonely Housewives' Reach FTC Settlement A spam scam promising dates with lonely, if not quite desperate, housewives is among the latest unsolicited bulk e-mail schemes halted today by the Federal Trade Commission.
InternetNews January 14, 2005 Roy Mark	Big Spam Bust, Texas Style State files multi-million dollar lawsuit against two of the nation's largest e-mail operators.
InternetNews July 20, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Microsoft: CSI for the FTC Redmond crime-stoppers do forensics work to help the FTC charge X-rated spammers.
InternetNews January 29, 2004 Roy Mark	FTC Proposes Adult Spam Labels A subject-line requirement for sexually explicit e-mail is the first of several FTC mandates under new Can Spam Act.
InternetNews April 1, 2005 Roy Mark	Diet Patch Spammers Settle With FTC Court rejects their claim that only affiliate marketers should be held responsible.
InternetNews April 29, 2004 Roy Mark	Feds Can Spammers Under New Act Federal authorities use Can Spam to raid prolific Michigan spam operation, which specialized in spoofing to hawk bogus diet patches.
InternetNews November 13, 2006 Roy Mark	Court Shutters Spyware Operation FTC claims millions of unwanted and unsolicited software downloaded without user permission.
InternetNews March 11, 2004 Roy Mark	Washington Beefs Up Can Spam The two powerful federal agencies empowered as the whip hand of the Can Spam Act began the process Thursday of fully implementing the United States' first national law aimed at curbing unsolicited bulk e-mail.
InternetNews March 24, 2006 Roy Mark	FTC Slaps Spammer With Record Fine The Federal Trade Commission Thursday hit Internet marketer Jumpstart Technologies with a $900,000 civil fine for violating the CAN-SPAM Act, the largest penalty to date for a violation of the two-year-old law.
InternetNews August 16, 2005 Roy Mark	Site Settles Deceptive Credit Report Claims FTC imposes a $950,000 fine and requires consumer restitution from Consumerinfo.com, which misled consumers with promises of a free credit report.
InternetNews January 5, 2006 Roy Mark	Bogus Spyware Vendors Settle FTC Charges The Federal Trade Commission slaps almost $2 million in fines on firms selling software that did not remove spyware as advertised.
InternetNews March 9, 2007 Roy Mark	Internet Pretexter Dials Up FTC Settlement Deal bars Information Search from pretexting and selling consumers' personal phone records.
InternetNews September 6, 2006 Roy Mark	Spyware Operation Fined $2M A spyware operation that promised protection from viruses and spam but instead installed malware agreed today to pay a $2 million fine to settle Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charges of false and deceptive practices.
InternetNews January 28, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	FTC Closing CAN-SPAM Loopholes Spam-fighting feds figure out the fine points of anti-spam law.
Search Engine Watch October 4, 1999	FTC Steps In To Stop Spamming There's a new sheriff in town, with the initials FTC. In September, the US Federal Trade Commission made a landmark move in establishing some jurisdiction over search engine results.
InternetNews February 21, 2007 Roy Mark	FTC Tags Site Again for Deceptive Ads Consumerinfo.com pays $300,000 to settle charges for deceptive advertising practices. This follows a $950,000 fine a year ago.
InternetNews May 3, 2006 Roy Mark	FTC Sues Sites Selling Phone Records Five Internet sites selling confidential phone records became the target of Federal Trade Commission lawsuits Wednesday.
InternetNews November 11, 2005 Roy Mark	L.A. Court Shuts Down Spyware Op The Federal Trade Commission seeks a permanent injunction and victim restitution for Los Angeles-based spyware scheme.
InternetNews March 4, 2009 Alex Goldman	FTC Warns of Stimulus Scams Online Fraudsters take to the Web, enticing victims with a share of the U.S.'s massive stimulus package.
InternetNews April 18, 2006 Catherine Pickavet	Spammers Settle With FTC Two more large-scale spammers have settled charges with the Federal Trade Commission that they sent commercial e-mails in violation of the CAN-SPAM Act.
InternetNews July 6, 2004 Jim Wagner	Spam-Fighting Triumvirate Formed The United States, the United Kingdom and Australia fight the big fight against the proliferation of spam.
InternetNews December 20, 2005 Roy Mark	FTC: CAN-SPAM Is Working With a big helping hand from technology, the Federal Trade Commission say spam volume is declining. But are spammers staying away?
AFP eWire January 20, 2004	Anti-Spam Law Expected to Have Little Impact on Charities While some questions remain regarding its implementation, the Can-Spam bill (S. 877) signed by President Bush late last year should have little impact on most charities.
PC World April 2004 Tom Spring	Spam Wars Rage The new federal antispam law doesn't seem to be working. Will anything stop the e-mail onslaught?
InternetNews December 12, 2006 Roy Mark	Feds Target Online Business Scams A combined federal-state task force announced Tuesday a law enforcement sweep targeting bogus business opportunities and work-at-home scams, including several Internet operations.
InternetNews May 24, 2005 Roy Mark	FTC Targets Zombie Spammers The Federal Trade Commission launched a new anti-spam campaign today targeting hijacked, or zombie, computers.
InternetNews January 4, 2005 Roy Mark	FTC Wins Round Against 'Spyware' King Deal with trade commission prevents Sanford Wallace from distributing or publishing spyware code until federal case is settled.
InternetNews October 8, 2004 Roy Mark	FTC Pursues Former Spam King in Court The Federal Trade Commission filed its first spyware case Thursday against the man once known as the undisputed king of spam and the various companies he controls.
InternetNews August 10, 2004 Roy Mark	FTC Settles with Pop-up Ad Operators Scheme involved exploiting Windows Messenger Service to barrage consumers with ads.
InternetNews August 15, 2006 Clint Boulton	FTC, AG Sue to Stuff Alleged Pop-up Scheme The Federal Trade Commission and the Washington state Attorney General have sued to halt an operation that barrages consumers with pop-up advertising and demands money to make the pop-ups cease.
InternetNews December 23, 2003 Pamela Parker	Do-Not-Spam Proves Popular Concept The majority of Americans would sign up for a do-not-spam list were the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to launch one, a new study has found.
InternetNews October 12, 2005 Roy Mark	FTC Freezes Internet Kiosk Businesses Two Florida companies cited by agency for misrepresenting income and location claims.
InternetNews June 5, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	FTC Shutters 'Rogue' ISP, Settles Spyware Case The Federal Trade Commission has put the kibosh on an ISP it says was a front for overseas criminals, and settled its complaint against Sears' use of tracking software.
InternetNews October 11, 2004 Roy Mark	Spam Summit Kicks Off Officials from the Federal Trade Commission and the British Office of Fair Trading hosted the first international meeting of spam enforcement agencies today in London.
InternetNews December 2, 2004 Sean Michael Kerner	Fighting to Keep Smut-Spam in a Brown Wrapper Microsoft brings seven new lawsuits against smut-peddling spammers under the CAN-SPAM law.
Search Engine Watch January 25, 2010 Ron Jones	E-mail Marketing 101 Tips on e-mail marketing providers, how to build an e-mail database, e-mail frequency, spam compliance, landing pages, graphics, social media, and more.
InternetNews March 7, 2006 Roy Mark	Feds Continue Spam Porno Crackdown A New Hampshire woman is facing up to 15 years in prison for violating the CAN SPAM Act after taking a Monday guilty plea to sending bulk pornographic spam e-mails.
AFP eWire May 3, 2004	FTC Proposal Could Restrict Nonprofit Email Responses to a request for preliminary comments by the Federal Trade Commissions (FTC) regarding a proposal to restrict the distribution of unsolicited commercial emails.
InternetNews November 29, 2005 Roy Mark	ISPs Making Progress on Spam Internet service providers are making progress in slowing spam, according to a recent Federal Trade Commission study.
InternetNews November 30, 2005 Roy Mark	FTC Stops Web Broker Business Scheme Two Internet-based companies offering Web brokerage services are the latest to be nabbed in a federal crackdown on illegal business opportunities and work-at-home schemes.
Bank Technology News October 2004 Kevin Jepson	Filters: SoCal CU Quells Its Spam Headaches Commtouch technology is helping the Credit Union of Southern California conquer its productivity-busting spam problem, whose inappropriate content also is prompting liability concerns. Problem solved.
InternetNews August 26, 2005 Roy Mark	Feds Bust Spam Porn Operation A Phoenix federal grand injury has indicted three individuals for multiple violations of the CAN SPAM Act including sending unsolicited obscene materials, money laundering and criminal conspiracy.
Wall Street & Technology March 2, 2004 Jim Middlemiss	IT Challenge: Spam The Challenge: Junk e-mail is becoming a big problem, as spammers clog inboxes with dubious offerings from weight-loss remedies to cheap Viagra. How to filter the spam without filtering important e-mails is a problem.
InternetNews March 5, 2004 Ron Miller	First Can Spam Suit Filed BobVila.com comes under fire in the first lawsuit filed under the federal anti-spam law.
T.H.E. Journal August 2004	Spam Sleuth Enterprise Helping keep e-mail inboxes spam-free is the goal of this Blue Squirre offering, which is an anti-spam server solution that resides on an e-mail server or as a separate server to screen out spam before it reaches the internal mail server.
InternetNews August 30, 2004 Colin C. Haley	Court Slaps Wireless Spammer An injunction is issued against a spammer for allegedly sending millions of unsolicited text messages to Verizon Wireless customers.
InternetNews February 18, 2004 Ron Miller	AOL, EarthLink File Lawsuits Against Spammers With the federal Can Spam Act so far proving ineffective, ISPs are pursuing aggressive civil actions.
InternetNews October 17, 2005 Roy Mark	FBI Raid Closes Spam Operation Federal agents shut down spammer Alan Ralsky with some help from the CAN-SPAM Act.
CIO June 1, 2004 Alice Dragoon	How the FTC Rescued the Dinner Hour Despite tight deadlines and a court ruling that temporarily shut it down, the Do Not Call Registry turned out to be one of the most successful IT projects in the history of government.
InternetNews June 15, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	Do-Not-Spam List Great For Spammers After a six-month study, the FTC updates Congress on the National Do Not E-Mail registry. Hint: It's not a good thing.