Netherlands imposes 1st fines on spammers
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Watchdogs in the Netherlands have taken the first strike in an ongoing campaign against unsolicited e-mail by levying fines against three spammers.
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WASHINGTON -- The US Federal Trade Commission is seeking the first fines for breaches of a rule banning calls to people whose numbers are on a &quot;do-not-call&quot; registry, saying a Las Vegas telemarketer made more than 300,000 unwelcome pitches.
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X marks the pest A Dutch spammer who used compromised PCs to spamvertise web sites has been fined â¬75,000 ($97,000) by Opta, the Netherlands telecoms regulatorâ¦
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A law firm in Colorado has been fined by federal court after a spam filter intercepted an important court notice.
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The Dutch government&#39;s telecommunications agency OPTA, responsible for regulating spam has flexed its regulatory muscles by issuing three separate anti-spamming fines this Tuesday.
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Two North Carolina residents Wednesday became the first people in the nation to be convicted on felony spamming charges after a Loudoun County jury found that they flooded tens of thousands of America Online e-mail accounts with unsolicited e-mail, prosecutors said. -The Washington Post
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Four of the nation's largest online providers yesterday announced a new round of lawsuits aimed at e-mail spammers, including the first major case involving spam sent via an instant messaging service.
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Authorities in the Netherlands have imposed their first fines for spam originating in that country. The Dutch government&#39;s telecommunications agency OPTA, which is responsible for regulating spam, issued three
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A 20-year-old student has been fined for participating in last year's cyberattack against Estonian Web sites.
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First action since Dutch law banning unsolicited e-mails to consumers.
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The Dutch telecommunications watchdog has issued its first fines under the nation's ban on spam.
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Unwanted e-mail from affiliates of an adult-entertainment company have garnered a $465,000 penalty in a settlement with the FTC, the latest in the agency's successful crackdown on sexually explicit junk e-mail.
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BRUSSELS Neelie Kroes came out swinging Thursday in her first public appearance as Europe&#39;s new competition commissioner, blocking a merger in the energy industry and slapping fines on three chemical companies for running a cartel.
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At the risk of breaching Internet civility, a European Web portal is offering its visitors a weapon against spam: a screensaver program that tries to choke spam servers by flooding them with junk traffic.
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Lycos Europe&#39;s controversial anti-spam efforts had a bumpy first week, with various availability problems, some of which may have been caused by the same spammers the site targeted with distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.
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Text of report by Radio TV Hong Kong Radio 3 audio website on 28 May  Starting from Friday [1 June], people who send electronic spam could be jailed for five years and fined 1m dollars [approx 128,000 US].
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Bots operators face jailtime too Denial of service attacks (DDOS), where targets are deluged with requests for information, will be made a criminal offence in Sweden from 1 June.â¦