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| | Four spammers hit with first Can-Spam action - silicon.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | According to court documents, the four men are accused of generating hundreds of thousands of different emails that hid their identities and advertised a weight loss patch. |
 | | The emails were sent out under a variety of company names, including AIT Herbal, Avatar Nutrition and Phoenix Avatar, identified collectively as the Avatar Companies. |
 | | The Federal Trade Commission is also involved in investigating the operation, and it said in the filing that it had received more than 10,000 complaints regarding the Avatar operation and had discovered 97 different Web site domain names purportedly being used by the involved individuals to advertise the diet patches. |
| www.silicon.com /research/specialreports/thespamreport/0,39025001,39120378,00.htm (610 words) |
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