Expensive SPAM - Record Civil Penalty
Published: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 Online-Casinos.com
EXPENSIVE SPAM - RECORD $900.000 CIVIL PENALTY
A SPAM penalty to make your eyes water...
The techie publication WHIR reported the greatest penalty yet imposed on a spammer this week in an article that should deliver a salutary warning to all those who bombard Internet users with unwanted spam emails, and the companies that support this irritating practice.
The story reports on Jumpstart Technologies, which has agreed in a consent decree to pay a $900 000 civil penalty for violating the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act, in the largest penalty yet for illegal spam.
And a further cautionary to spammers is that the Federal Trade Commission says it is increasing fines for Internet marketers -adult and mainstream - now that the Can-Spam Act has been in effect for several years.
The FTC says that it is charging companies that violate Can-Spam with aggressive fines. Jumpstart was fined for its FreeFlixTix promotion, which provided direct marketing opportunities to online advertising partners by collecting marketing data to sell to third parties.
The San Francisco-based Jumpstart, owned by Greg Tseng, operates numerous companies, including Bonus Bonez, Harding Innovations, Infinity Brands and Launchpad Services, as well as such sites as CrushLink.com and SomeoneLikesYou.com.
The FTC alleged that Jumpstart offered free movie tickets to email recipients in exchange for the names and email addresses of five or more of their friends. It then sent them commercial emails with the consumer's email address in the "from" line and personal "subject lines" like "Hey," "Happy Valentine's Day," "Happy New Year," "Movie time. Let's go," or "Invite."
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