The fight against spam

High School as a teacher of maths, Peter Fulton knows the odds are against people, play the lottery, but he acknowledges stupid enough to bet on the Internet, a regulation that promised to cure his wife’s terminal cancer pancreas.Fulton’s Fall was adopted on Tuesday by the Federal Trade Commission and the criminal prosecution authorities of the north-west, said a coalition to fight against online fraud entail had some success, but always on consumers, nothing more to do to protect themselves.

There was a diet, treatments, a strange machine, blinzelte buzzed and update the immune system and a teary Fulton said of the “healing” on a website being Olympia, Washington.

Such hope has been encouraging to my wife but, of course, there was no hope, “said Fulton, his wife died in 1999, after the couple spent $ 1500, salaries “There must be better consumers,” said Fulton.

The Internet Enforcement Task Force, also called Netforce, born two years ago by the FTC and several countries, including Washington, Oregon to Alaska and the fight against online fraud and fraudulent e-mails or “spam “.

Netforce Tuesday advantage of his press conference to say that the FTC in court in four new cases of alleged consumer fraud and issuing a report said she had 63 cases handled by Web-based and Scams has had more than 500 warning letters sending misleading e-mails.

Cyberspace is a wonderful opportunity, but we soon learned, it is also a dangerous place for reckless, Washington State Attorney General Christine Gregoire told reporters.

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