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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 March 9, 2007 Roy Mark	Internet Pretexter Dials Up FTC Settlement Deal bars Information Search from pretexting and selling consumers' personal phone records.
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.
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 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 April 11, 2005 Tim Gray	Americans Learning to Live With Spam Agita E-mail users say they are more accepting of spam. Doesn't make it less painful though.
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 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 June 7, 2004 Robyn Greenspan	The Deadly Duo: Spam and Viruses, May 2004 The spam volume remains unchanged over the month, but Internet users don't have reason to celebrate, as the plateau is not indicative of an imminent decline in unwanted messages.
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 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 January 28, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	FTC Closing CAN-SPAM Loopholes Spam-fighting feds figure out the fine points of anti-spam law.
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 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.
InternetNews November 13, 2006 Roy Mark	Court Shutters Spyware Operation FTC claims millions of unwanted and unsolicited software downloaded without user permission.
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.
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 February 24, 2004 Sharon Gaudin	Viruses Blamed for Expected 80% Spam Saturation by Q3 Spam is expected to make up 80 percent of all email by the third-quarter of this year. And analysts blame it largely on the open proxies created by viruses, like Sobig and MyDoom.
InternetNews January 17, 2007 Roy Mark	Jury to Phisher: You've Got Prison Time California man faces 100 years in prison for phishing scheme aimed at AOL users.
InternetNews November 8, 2010	Spam Surges 28 Percent in October: AppRiver Hundreds of millions of spam emails were distributed every day in October and most of them originated in the United States.
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.
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...
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.
New Architect December 2002 Lincoln D. Stein	Spammed I Am Why laws meant to fight spam aren't making a dent
InternetNews May 23, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Learning to Live With Spam Pew research finds users have gotten smarter about spam and are learning to deal with it, in more ways than one.
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 January 26, 2011	Spam Volume Tumbles in January New report from security software vendor Symantec reveals that worldwide spam traffic fell to a two-year low in January, largely due to a sharp decline in pharmaceutical spam.
Reason November 2004 Jeff A. Taylor	Spamming Voters Political spam has steadily increased during the election year, suggesting that it could make up 5 percent of all spam going into 2005. Such spam is exempt from the requirements of the CAN-SPAM Act, which regulates only "commercial" messages.
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.
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 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.
InternetNews March 30, 2004 Roy Mark	AOL to Reward Spam Victims The ISP is expected to give 'valuable asset' seized from spammer to victim of e-mail scam.
InternetNews July 1, 2004 Sharon Gaudin	U.S. Sending More than Half of All Spam While the flood of spam has increased sharply during the last six months, a new survey also shows that slightly more than half of it worldwide is coming out of the U.S.
Entrepreneur September 2003 Chris Penttila	Direct Hit Can direct marketing survive a consumer backlash?
InternetNews May 26, 2009 Alex Goldman	Spam Now More Than 90% of All E-Mail Spammers are increasingly directing users to compromised social networks while botnets' influence grows, according to MessageLabs.
InternetNews August 10, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Stopping Spammers at The Point of Sale New research suggests going after the commerce sites listed in spam mail, but some have already been doing just that.
InternetNews March 18, 2004 Robyn Greenspan	More Unwanted Messages Since CAN-SPAM While Pew Internet & American Life Project found that e-mail users have seen an increase in spam, the survey reports a decrease in pornographic messages.
InternetNews February 16, 2007 Roy Mark	DirectRevenue to Pay Back 'Spyware' Gains Adware distributor DirectRevenue today settled Federal Trade Commission charges of unfair and deceptive trade practices of installing unwanted and unsolicited spyware unto consumers' computers.
InternetNews July 27, 2007 Ray Everett-Church	Spam: You've Come a Long Way, Baby A report on the recent FTC 'Spam Summit,' and a look back at a similar event 10 years ago.