Dutch watchdog issues fines vs. spammers
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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- The Dutch telecommunications watchdog has issued its first fines under the nation&#39;s ban on spam. The highest single fine - for $61,000 - went to a person involved with four spam e
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Members of a "pump-and-dump" spam group face prison terms, civil charges filed by the SEC.
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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.
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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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Dutch authorities have announced that country&#39;s first fines against spammers, including an individual and two companies who sent unsolicited e-mails and mobile telephone text messages.
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Text of report by Radio TV Hong Kong Radio 3 audio website on 28 May  Starting from Friday [1 June], people who send electronic spam could be jailed for five years and fined 1m dollars [approx 128,000 US].
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Sanctions against botnet operators The Federal Trade Commission, the US consumer rights watchdog, has succeeded in shutting down four illegal spamming operations judged to have breached federal anti-spam laws. Targets of the lawsuits included an operation that offered the supposed chance to "date lonely wives" and two outfits that allegedly bombarded unwilling recipients with lurid ads for pornographic web sites, sent via compromised PCs.â¦
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Local pest rather than international conspiracy Estonia has fined a local man a year's salary for involvement in last April's sustained denial of service attacks against the Baltic nation's critical internet systems.â¦
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An unsolicited marketing message irritates an Edinburgh man and earns its sender a lawsuit -- and a $1,445 fine for damages. Is your inbox a gold mine? By the Associated Press.
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A Las Vegas company has been fined $2.6 million and ordered to stop sending spam, making false claims.
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At the risk of breaching Internet civility, a European Web portal is offering its visitors a weapon against spam: a screensaver program that tries to choke spam servers by flooding them with junk traffic.
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Spammers are a key adopter of a technology meant, in part, to fight spam.
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To: TECHNOLOGY EDITORS  Contact: U.S. Department of Justice, +1-202-514-2008, TDD: +1- 202-514-1888   WASHINGTON, June 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Department of Justice has recently become aware of fraudulent spam e-mail messages claiming to be from DOJ.
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Anti-spam activists disagree about whether a $1.08 billion judgment Friday against three spammers in Iowa will discourage others from sending unsolicited bulk e-mail.
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com. Spammers are trying to make their junk mail look more legit by adopting the same technologies intended to stem their message tsunamis, said a filtering firm Wednesday.
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New service helps companies thwart online scams.
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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.