Federal regulators to target e-mail that cons consumers
Deceptive junk e-mail is the latest target for federal regulators seeking to purge the Internet of fraud.
The Federal Trade Commission will announce in the next couple of weeks its first effort to prosecute con artists who specifically use e-mail spam to dupe consumers, said Howard Beales, the agency’s director of consumer protection.
“We are interested in a systematic attack on deceptive spam,” Beales said Thursday in an interview. “It’s clear that there’s enough fraudulent and deceptive spam out there that if we got rid of it, a lot of people would be happier, but I don’t think we’ll be in any danger of running out of potential cases.”
Forward spam to the FTC at: [email protected].
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