U.S. Charges 4 Under New Anti-Spam Law

28 Apr, 2004 at 11:27pm ET Article published in Tech

U.S. authorities charged four people in Detroit on Wednesday with e-mailing fraudulent sales pitches for weight-loss products, the first criminal prosecutions under the government’s new “can spam” legislation.

Court papers identified the four as Daniel J. Lin, James J. Lin, Mark M. Sadek and Christopher Chung, all believed living in suburban Detroit. They were accused of disguising their identities in hundreds of thousands of sales pitches and delivering e-mails by bouncing messages through unprotected relay computers on the Internet.

Four down, many more to go. It’s a good start. -KingFish

Source: Excite/Associated Press

Comments

29 Apr 2004 ~ 12:20am Geeky1

U.S. authorities charged four people in Detroit on Wednesday

Am I the only one that saw that and immediatly thought of Thrax, TheSmJ, Prime, and -Tk?
29 Apr 2004 ~ 12:35am RWB

Geeky1 wrote:

Am I the only one that saw that and immediatly thought of Thrax, TheSmJ, Prime, and -Tk?

Sounds about right, when was the last time they posted?
29 Apr 2004 ~ 2:48am KingFish I thought that too but kept it zipped.
Hopefully this will send a message to others and at least begin to curtail the problem.

KingFish