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| | Trouble Brewing for Kraft and Gevalia Over Coffee Spam |
 | | FOSTER CITY, Calif., April 18 /PRNewswire/ -- A federal lawsuit alleging violations of federal and California anti-spam email laws was filed today in U.S. District Court, Northern District, in San Francisco against Illinois-based Kraft Foods, Inc. (NYSE: KFT) and its New Jersey-based subsidiary Victor Th. |
 | | "Gevalia routinely uses some of the most notorious spammers in the business." The suit alleges that the defendants and/or their agents send spam email advertisements with fraudulent and misleading headers, often to randomly generated and harvested email addresses. |
 | | Sure enough, that email address, given only to Gevalia, started getting daily spam for all kinds of products and services." "If submitting email addresses to Kraft's Gevalia is demonstrably a bad idea, imagine the peril in submitting addresses directly to the spammers they hire," Fallat added. |
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