Collaborate Disseminate
On the eve of their federal criminal trial for allegedly stealing vast swaths of Internet addresses for use in large-scale email spam campaigns, three current or former executives at online advertising firm Adconion Direct have agreed to plead guilty to lesser misdemeanor charges of fraud and misrepresentation via email. Continue reading Adconion Execs Plead Guilty in Federal Anti-Spam Case
Sure, we may have a lower investment in the collective good, but we’ve also been basically conditioned to avoid answering the phone at any and all costs. Continue reading The Real Reason Contact Tracing Is Doomed in the US: Spam Calls
Two coalitions of online and email marketing companies are calling for the Federal Trade Commission to tighten some restrictions on commercial email, including broader use of message authentication protocols like DMARC, more user-friendly opt-out and unsubscribe options and prohibitions on the use of technologies designed to defeat spam filters and other anti-spam techniques. The calls come in public comments the FTC is soliciting as it prepares to review rules it imposed in 2005, implementing the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing, or CAN-SPAM, Act of 2003. The comment period — which closes this week — is designed to inform the agency’s regular review of its rules and will not necessarily result in any changes to the regulations. The Email Sender and Provider Coalition — an industry group for bulk-mail senders — and the Online Trust Alliance, a nonprofit that’s part of the Internet Society, have both submitted comments. OTA subissions are endorsed by a half dozen interactive marketers and […]
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Two coalitions of online and email marketing companies are calling for the Federal Trade Commission to tighten some restrictions on commercial email, including broader use of message authentication protocols like DMARC, more user-friendly opt-out and unsubscribe options and prohibitions on the use of technologies designed to defeat spam filters and other anti-spam techniques. The calls come in public comments the FTC is soliciting as it prepares to review rules it imposed in 2005, implementing the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing, or CAN-SPAM, Act of 2003. The comment period — which closes this week — is designed to inform the agency’s regular review of its rules and will not necessarily result in any changes to the regulations. The Email Sender and Provider Coalition — an industry group for bulk-mail senders — and the Online Trust Alliance, a nonprofit that’s part of the Internet Society, have both submitted comments. OTA subissions are endorsed by a half dozen interactive marketers and […]
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Michael A. Persaud, a California man profiled in a Nov. 2014 KrebsOnSecurity story about a convicted junk email artist currently identified by anti-spam activists as one of the world’s Top 10 Worst Spammers, was reportedly raided by the FBI in connection with a federal spam investigation. Continue reading FBI Raids Spammer Outed by KrebsOnSecurity