Dutch Watchdog Levies First Fines Against Spammers
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The Dutch telecom and postal watchdog OPTA has levied fines as high as 42,500 euros ($57,540) against several individuals and small companies for sending out spam messages.
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p2pnet.net News:- Spammer Jeremy Jaynes, aka Gaven Stubberfield, had the distinction of being the first spammer to be charged under Virginia&#39;s antispam law.
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Watchdogs in the Netherlands have taken the first strike in an ongoing campaign against unsolicited e-mail by levying fines against three spammers.
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p2pnet.net News:- The US Federal Trade Commission has filed its first spyware case against former self-styled Spam King Sanford Wallace, says the Center for Democracy and Technology, which made the original complaint last February.
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WASHINGTON - The Justice Department has made a series of arrests against purveyors of e-mail "spam" as part of a nationwide crackdown against Internet scam artists, a marketing group said Wednesday.    The Direct Marketing Association, which has put up $500,000 to help the FBI and Justice Department with the probe, said in a statement that the arrests stem from a yearlong investigation intended to "engender greater trust and comfort in legitimate e-mail communications."   Details of "Operation Slam Spam" were expected to be announced Thursday, according to the marketing group and a federal law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity...
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A judge has ruled that Maryland's anti-spam law &#151; the first state law to penalize senders of junk e-mail &#151; is unconstitutional because it seeks to regulate commerce outside the state's borders.
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The nation's first law aimed at curtailing junk e-mail earned a mixed report card after a year on the books as few spammers faced legal action and recent surveys showed that spam makes up an even larger proportion of online messages. -washingtonpost.com
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The US&#39;s biggest internet companies have launched yet another crackdown against spammers as part of their latest efforts to protect net users from junk email.
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Spammers are a key adopter of a technology meant, in part, to fight spam.
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A tool that could help in the battle against spam and phishing attacks receives industry approval.
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Dutch telecommunications regulator OPTA, which is responsible for regulating spam in the Netherlands, imposed three separate fines this week, the first since the Dutch government agreed in May to a ban on unsolicited e-mail to consumers.
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Antispam activists disagree about the effect of the major federal court judgment against three spammers.
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The European Commission urged member states to beef up the fight against unwanted Internet &quot;spam&quot; messages and malicious spyware, citing the Dutch approach to the problem as an effective model.
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Spammer Convicted to Nine Years in Prison  Yesterday the first two spammers ever were convicted of a felony for sending fraudulent unsolicited commercial e-mail - spam. Jeremy Jaynes and Jessica DeGroot, a brother and sister team, were convicted in a Virginia court Wednesday of sending AOL users millions of unsolicited commercial ...
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The Federal Trade Commission formally announced yesterday its first assault against spyware - bits of computer code that surreptitiously install themselves on the computers of Internet users
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DECEMBER 30, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Dutch authorities have issued their first fines for spam originating in the Netherlands. Telecommunications regulator OPTA, which is responsible for regulating spam in
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Arbitration is part of the next wave of security measures, and can be effective against spammers who illegally harvest email addresses from a honeypot on your website.