Netherlands Issues First Fines to Spammers
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Authorities in the Netherlands have imposed their first fines for spam originating in that country. The Dutch government&#39;s telecommunications agency OPTA, which is responsible for regulating spam, issued three
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BRUSSELS Neelie Kroes came out swinging Thursday in her first public appearance as Europe&#39;s new competition commissioner, blocking a merger in the energy industry and slapping fines on three chemical companies for running a cartel.
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With its service, the company says, spam is quarantined before it enters the customer's network.
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Massachusetts Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly declared a victory in the war on unwanted e-mail yesterday, as a Florida spammer agreed to pay $25,000 to settle a state lawsuit alleging violations of a new federal antispam law.
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Spammers have come close to ruining e-mail--and threaten to do the same to Internet telephony. The time to stop them is now.
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In the Netherlands, the Dutch telecommunications watchdog, in accordance with the nation&#39;s ban on spam, has issued its first fines to spammers.
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The Dutch telecommunications industry watchdog said Tuesday it has issued its first fines against spammers, including one person and two companies who sent unwanted e-mails and mobile telephone text 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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[Johannesburg, 12 October 2004] - International consumer law enforcers from 29 countries were yesterday urged to work together to combat the growing threat of spam.
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Telecommunications regulator OPTA, which is responsible for regulating spam in the Netherlands, issued three separate fines on Tuesday, the first since the Dutch government agreed
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WASHINGTON, Washington, United States of America -- The first known lawsuit against instant-message spam, sometimes called âspim,â was announced by America Online as part of a campaign to stem unwanted computer messages.
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Officials from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the British Office of Fair Trading (OFT) hosted the first international meeting of spam enforcement agencies today in London.
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All three cell phone operators in the Czech Republic were fined a total of &#36;1.7 million for breaching competition rules, officials said Thursday.
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Website shows how you can hit back, too An Edinburgh man has obtained damages of more than Â£1,300 from British-based spammer.â¦
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InfoWorld - An Internet-based provider of sexually explicit entertainment has agreed to pay a $465,000 civil penalty for sending unwanted e-mail, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced Tuesday.
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Internet users are being given the chance to hit back at the spammers that have become the scourge of the web, thanks to free software being distributed by Lycos Europe, the internet portal.
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Two men behind a spam ring that sent millions of pornographic mails are the first to be convicted under new federal spam laws, the Justice Department said.