California Spammer Convicted via the Can-Spam Law

Jan 17, 2007 0 Replies

( and note that this was a real trial, not a default/no-show )



" An Azusa man who defrauded users of Time Warner Inc.'s America Online unit by sending e-mails requesting credit data became the first defendant found guilty by a jury under a 2003 federal law barring Internet spam.



" Jeffrey Goodin, 45, was convicted under the 2003 Can-Spam Act, the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles said Tuesday. The statute prohibits sending unsolicited e-mail messages with falsified header, or return address, information ...



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may be power, but communications is the key snipped-for-privacy@panix.com [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]



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