quot; Among other things, the Act · makes it a federal crime, punishable by fines and incarceration, to send unsolicited commercial electronic mail containing fraudulent header information; · prohibits certain methods of generating electronic mail address lists; · prohibits the transmission of commercial electronic mail to recipients who have "opted out" of receiving such communications from the sender; · creates a regulatory scheme by which certain identifying information is required in all commercial electronic mail; and · "directs the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to develop a plan for implementing a national Do-Not-E-Mail registry.
26 /PRNewswire/ -- This week, three individuals were indicted by a federal grand jury in Phoenix, Arizona on charges of violating the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003, a federal law designed to crack down on the transmission of bulk, unsolicited commercial electronic mail messages.
878 TOKASZ Establishes no person shall transmit unsolicited commercial electronic mail messages unless "ADV:" is the first four characters of the message; establishes no person shall transmit certain other unsolicited commercial electronic mail messages unless "ADV:ADLT" is the first eight characters of the message; establishes no person shall from a computer located in this state transmit unsolicited commercial electronic mail messages to another state resident unless the sender establishes and informs the recipient of a toll free telephone number or electronic message address where the recipient may notify the sender that he or she does not want any further commercial electronic mail messages; provides for enforcement by the attorney general.
The bill, HR-3113, the Unsolicited Commercial Electronic Mail Act of 2000, would allow Internet Service Providers and consumers to sue E-mail spammers for up to $150,000 per violation of a posted no spam policy or for failing to comply with an individual E-mail user's request to be omitted from future mailings.
Let's see, the penalty ($500) for violating the new state law and sending unsolicited commercial electronic mail would handle a car payment; a down payment on a cruise; a lavish dinner; a new wardrobe.
Frank Murkowski (R-Alaska) has introduced the Unsolicited Commercial Electronic Mail Choice Act of 1997, which would require spammers to put the word advertisement in the subject line and to honor requests to remove names from their lists.
com's Whois database in violation of the terms of use of that database, or make use of any data it can identify as previously obtained from that database to send unsolicited commercial electronic mail or direct mail to register.
