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Friday, 19 January 2007 09:13 |
First Person in U.S. Convicted for Spam E-mailing
Tuan Nguyen (Blog) - January 19, 2007 8:17 AM
DailyTech
Jeffery Goodin faces 101 years in prison for spam
A report on the Mercury News revealed that a man from Los Angeles has been criminally convicted of spam e-mailing and is the first person to be convicted of such a crime in the U.S. Forty-five year old Jeffery Goodin was found guilty of running a running scam that fooled users into giving out personal information. E-mails that Goodin sent out made users believe that they were cooperating with a legitimate business when in fact they were not.
Goodin is convicted under the 2003 CAN-SPAM Act, which makes it illegal for marketers to send out false or misleading information to users. Not only is this illegal, Goodin also sent millions of these e-mails over the course of his spam career. The CAN-SPAM Act also dictates that legitimate e-mails such as newsletters and advertisements must feature a way for recipients to remove themselves from the mailing list.
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