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Story: Comdex heats up spam-cooking tools

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The whole point of a spam as I see it, is to
a) Take money from the unsuspecting masses for goods and services that may or may not be real,
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b) To spread mailcious code, trojans, worms etc.

Lets look at the first. All we need is for an investigator to fill in the form, complete with credit card details. Some bank, somewhere on the planet has to convert that to cash. The investigator now contacts the clearing bank and asks for the identitiy of the company or individual.

We then start a class action against the culprit, with each recipient of that particular spam mailing, claiming say a nominal $10 for damamages.

If the culprit want's to blame the "Person or Promotion Company" they "hired" to do the job, tough luck, the individual concerned ( if they do actually exist ) is acting in the capacity as an agent of the employer, and as such the culprit is to blame anyway.

We would only need a few of these to get hit with some real heavy fines, and obviously for the fines and costs to be followed up and collected by the courts to see this part disapear.

For part b) the only thing that occurs to me at this time is to let the NRA members in the USA extract their own kind of justice, by way of an extension of the virus-spammers hunting season.

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