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Federal Trade Commission Cracking Down on Senders of Illegal Junk E-mail.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, February, 2002
By Hervey Colette, Austin American-Statesman, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Feb. 13--WASHINGTON--Got spam? Forward it to the Federal Trade Commission.
Really. The FTC doesn't want all of your junk mail, but it is cracking down on deceptive chain-letter spam and wants to know about e-mails such as those that promise recipients they can earn "$46,000 or more in the next 90 days" if they send $5 to a few individuals.
"Almost everyone with an e-mail account gets spam," said Timothy Muris, chairman of the FTC. "It's intrusive, unwelcome and annoying. Deceptive junk mail is also illegal. We want to send a message today: We're going after deceptive spam and the people who send it."
The FTC encouraged people to send any...
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