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United States Sues to Log Off Junk E-Mail Operator.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, April, 2003
By Matt O'Connor, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Apr. 18--Federal regulators have gone to court in Chicago to shut down a spam operation that has flooded consumers across the country with e-mails containing innocuous subject lines that fool many into opening the sexually graphic material, officials said Thursday.
While spam e-mails represent a growing new problem, the lawsuit by the Federal Trade Commission alleged this operation had an age-old motive: greed.
The operator, Brian D. Westby of suburban St. Louis, was seeking to attract business to his sexually oriented Web sites, and he profited handsomely, making well over $1 million in less than a year, the FTC said.
In launching an offensive against the...
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