“CAN-SPAM” Act arrest made

criminal charges are the first under the CAN-SPAM act

[bsand715]

Spammer beware. Sheriff John Brown is after you.

Two Detroit-area men arrested for allegedly sending hundreds of thousands of spam email messages advertising diet patches and other devices, while using fake headers to hide their identities.

The criminal charges in this case are the first under the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Marketing and Pornography (“CAN-SPAM”) Act, which was enacted in December 2003 and took effect on January 1, 2004. The Act criminalizes, among other things, sending multiple commercial electronic mail messages with materially false or fraudulent return addresses.
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[beakertrail]

Good! They should also make crawling the net for email addresses illegal. There is no way that could ever been twisted to appear useful to anyway.

Beaker