Posted on 6-5-2003

Freeze Out Spam Email

Forward spam emails you receive to uce@ftc.gov , where it can be examined for possible fraudulent business practices. The "refrigerator," as the computer is known, currently receives 130,000 emails per day.

The US's FTC has managed to shut down 48 spammers, he said. Large ISPs such as EarthLink Inc. and America Online have filed suits of their own, using existing trespass, nuisance and computer crime laws to shut down spammers. EarthLink has sued over 100 spammers, winning judgments of up to US$25 million, said Dave Baker, vice president for law and public policy, and also uses a variety of filtering technologies and several full-time staffers to weed out unwanted messages.

However, every user of email needs to run their own anti-spam programme, downloadable online (use anti spam in search field to find).