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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 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 April 1, 2005 Roy Mark	Diet Patch Spammers Settle With FTC Court rejects their claim that only affiliate marketers should be held responsible.
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?
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.
InternetNews December 14, 2009	Security Firm Finds Spammers Thriving in U.S. McAfee's December spam report finds spammers are still operating with relative impunity despite looming six-year anniversary of FTC's Can-Spam Act.
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 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 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 September 24, 2004 Sean Michael Kerner	Redmond Aims, Fires at Spammers' Accomplices Latest suit in Microsoft's spam fight takes aim at claims of bulletproof hosts for spammers.
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 May 20, 2004 Janis Mara	CAN-SPAM Gets Mixed Reviews in Senate Testimony Five months on, the anti-spam measure is far from an unqualified success.
InternetNews January 12, 2005 Roy Mark	Feds Hit Porn E-Mail Ring With Can Spam Law Armed with new rules to supplement the Can Spam Act, the Federal Trade Commission has won a court order to temporarily halt a pornography-related spam ring that stretches from Las Vegas to Latvia.
InternetNews September 24, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	Anti-Spammers on Attack Small claims court becomes the frontline in the war against unwanted e-mails.
InternetNews January 3, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner	CAN-SPAM in Effect? Not a chance says MX Logic, which reports that most spam is not playing by the CAN-SPAM rules.
InternetNews January 28, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	FTC Closing CAN-SPAM Loopholes Spam-fighting feds figure out the fine points of anti-spam law.
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.
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 August 25, 2004 Jim Wagner	Feds Hit Alleged Spammers in Sting The U.S. Department of Justice is set to announce several arrests and indictments against alleged spammers.
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.
The Motley Fool March 10, 2004 Alyce Lomax	The Anti-Spam Squad It seems politics and spam make strange bedfellows. Some of the Internet's heavy hitters filed a collective lawsuit today against spammers.
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.
The Motley Fool September 24, 2004 Alyce Lomax	Microsoft's New Suit The tech behemoth targets more spammers for lawsuits.
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 April 1, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	The Red, White and Blue of Spam Nothing has changed since the Federal Can-Spam Act became law except that more of it seems to becoming from the U.S., according to one industry player's report.
InternetNews August 20, 2004 Jim Wagner	A Day in the Life of a Spammer Bulk e-mail provider looking for sympathy, finds he can't even disclose his real name.
InternetNews April 8, 2005 Tim Gray	Gates Wants to Can Spam -- Fast Microsoft founder and chief software architect continues to push for eradication of spam.
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 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.
CIO June 15, 2003 Grant Gross	Lawmakers Get Creative to Fight Unwanted E-Mail Charging spammers with racketeering crimes and rewarding spam victims with a financial bounty are among the more creative solutions proposed by members of Congress to the problem of unsolicited e-mail.
InternetNews April 8, 2004 Robyn Greenspan	The Deadly Duo: Spam and Viruses, March 2004 The spam ratio only grew by 1 percentage point, but the economic damage from malware was staggering.
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 March 10, 2004 Roy Mark	Major E-Mail Providers Bare Can Spam Teeth AOL, EarthLink, Yahoo! and Microsoft use new federal law to go after kingpin spammers.
PC World January 2004 Tom Spring	Spam Laws: Bark or Bite? New antispam efforts aren't expected to end the scourge.
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 October 29, 2004 Colin C. Haley	ISPs Band Together Against Spam AOL, EarthLink, Microsoft and Yahoo sue individuals who allegedly violate the Can-Spam law by sending millions of unwanted e-mails and IMs.
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.
Entrepreneur July 2004 Catherine Seda	Spam Uncanned Is the Can-Spam legislation reducing unsolicited e-mail? Not according to a February 2004 survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
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.
PC Magazine March 11, 2004 Michael J. Miller	Fixing the E-Mail Mess I understand the appeal of "fighting spam with spam," but the practical implications are staggering.
The Motley Fool January 26, 2004 Selena Maranjian	An End to Spam? We may be rejoicing in 2006, thanks to Bill Gates. Gates alluded to a "magic solution" that his team is working on to address the problem of unwanted email, or spam. Better still, he expects this solution to be in place soon.
InternetNews March 9, 2007 Roy Mark	Internet Pretexter Dials Up FTC Settlement Deal bars Information Search from pretexting and selling consumers' personal phone records.
PC Magazine September 14, 2005 Sebastian Rupley	Rough Justice for Spammers America Online has turned the tables on a spammer who lost a legal case to the company. Microsoft agreed to a $7 million settlement with one of the top spammers in the world.
AskMen.com Thomas Bey	5 Things You Didn't Know About Spam 1 - Spamming is legal... 2 - Many companies you know use spam... 3 - The spam is coming from inside your house...
InternetNews April 13, 2007 Andy Patrizio	IDC: Spam To Rocket Past Legit E-Mail This Year A new report by IDC says that spam could surpass legitimate e-mail in terms of volume this year as unsolicited e-mail continues to explode and e-mail falls out of favor as a means of communication.
PC World April 2006 Tom Spring	Spam Mutates Junk ads are migrating to blogs, instant messages, and cell phones... Interview with a man who makes a living from sending spam mail.
InternetNews April 27, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Spammers Find New Ways Around Filters Image-based spammers now use image hosting to get around image filters.
InternetNews June 18, 2010	Microsoft Suing Hotmail Spammers Software giant goes to court to take down the orchestrators of what it describes as the "largest ever" spam attacks on its Windows Live Hotmail service.
InternetNews April 13, 2004 Kuchinskas & Mara	Maryland Lawmakers Pass Anti-Spam Bill Maryland lawmakers this week passed a bill aimed at "kingpin," or high-volume, spammers that would punish offenders, especially repeaters, with jail time, monetary fines and loss of personal property.
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.