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

[Force Flow]

.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.

Chung and Sadek appeared in U.S. District Court and were released on unsecured bonds, said Gina Balaya, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's Office. The Lins have not been arrested. Sadek's lawyer, James L. Feinberg, said U.S. agents arrived at Sadek's home early Wednesday "out of the clear blue" and arrested him.

~From Yahoo.com

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=562&ncid=738&e=4&u=/ap/20040429/ap_on_hi_te/internet_spam

[mbossman2]

please note this is not a wimpy civil case but rather a criminal, they can go to jail, case.

note sure what good this will do, especially as the crooks adapt and move their operations off shore.

[Redfallon]

surely there can't be enough money to be made to justify that expense! It's scary to think that there would be. Certainly the number of people who would buy/try a product or service that was introduced to them in spam has to be slim to none!

[Big Weapons]

You'd be surprised