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by Mike Masnick

Thu, Sep 14th 2006 10:33pm





Lonely Housewives Searching For... Money To Pay The FTC Following Spam Fine

from the no-fraud? dept

The latest set of fines coming out of the FTC for spammers includes a $400,000 fine for a spamming operation about "lonely housewives." The FTC noted that the spam messages violated almost every part of CAN SPAM: "misleading headers, deceptive subject lines, did not contain a valid physical postal address and did not disclose that the e-mail was sexually explicit." One would have to guess that there weren't actually lonely housewives involved either, which would suggest false advertising -- but perhaps that goes without saying.

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    Anonymous Coward, Sep 14th, 2006 @ 11:31pm

    LOL

     

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    OneNeutrino, Sep 14th, 2006 @ 11:31pm

    Whoops forgot my name ^

     

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    ?, Sep 15th, 2006 @ 4:30am

    Too busy

    Too busy thinking about them lonely housewives eh?

     

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    lar3ry, Sep 15th, 2006 @ 4:37am

    Knock! Knock!

    Ms. Sheridan, at the FCC, we feel that you and your friends aren't quite "desparate" enough, and have decided that the title of your series is misleading, deceptive, does not contain a valid physical postal address, and does not disclose that your T.V. show is sexually explicit. Fork over the money, baby!

     

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    www.rimis.net, Jul 28th, 2009 @ 7:22am

    Nice post

    Lonely housewives

     

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    Jennifer Starr, Dec 6th, 2011 @ 5:37am

    Dear FTC

    They're still sending the spam. You need to punish them more harshly. $400,000 was a slap on the wrist.

     

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