Re: FTC Slams Spammer in Pocketbook -- Hard

["Stephen J. Smoogen" <smooge () gmail com>]

On 3/24/06, Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com> wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Richard E. Perlotto II wrote:
>
> > How can you be prohibited from unlawful practices...  when they were already
> > unlawful?
>
> You might be doing something that you didn't know, and still perhaps
> aren't sure, is illegal.

The FTC does 99% of its work through the Civil courts which basically
means that you end up with these strange statements because of the
interlay between Civil Courts and Criminal courts.

> > Richard
> >
> > Fergie wrote:
> > > Via The FTC.
> > >
> > > [snip]
> > >
> > > An Internet marketer will pay a $900,000 civil penalty for violating the CAN-SPAM Act, the largest penalty yet 
> > > for illegal spam, according to the Federal Trade Commission. The company also is permanently prohibited from its 
> > > unlawful practices, according to a consent decree signed by the company.
> > >
> > > According to the FTC, since July 2002, San Francisco-based Jumpstart Technologies LLC, has operated as an 
> > > Internet marketer, providing direct marketing opportunities for its advertising partners and collecting marketing 
> > > information to sell to third parties. The FTC's complaint alleges that in its FreeFlixTix promotion, Jumpstart 
> > > violated the law by disguising its commercial e-mails as personal messages, and by misleading consumers as to the 
> > > terms and conditions of the promotion.
> > >
> > > [snip]
> > >
> > > More:
> > > http://ftc.gov/opa/2006/03/freeflixtix.htm
> > >
> > > - ferg
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
> > >  Engineering Architecture for the Internet
> > >  fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
> > >  ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
> > >
> > >
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Stephen J Smoogen.
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