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FTC Struggles To Gain Ground In War On Spam

Get rich suing spammers or your money back! If offers like that get your goat, you are not alone. Angry consumers forward about 130,000 spam messages to the Federal Trade Commission every day, Chairman Timothy Muris said at the FTC's first Spam Forum. As recently as 2001, the average was just 10,000 per day, he said. The FTC has stepped up its enforcement efforts in the past year. For instance, it announced the fourth in a series of joint federal-state sweeps directed at Internet fraud, including deceptive spam. But there is widespread agreement among experts that existing legal tools are insufficient for the task.

11 minute read August 26, 2003 at 03:10 PM
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Gary Young
FTC Struggles To Gain Ground In War On Spam

Get rich suing spammers or your money back! If offers like that get your goat, you are not alone.

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