The Case of Spamford Wallace: Guilty at Last!
My anti-spam community friends were all abuzz today with the news that Spamford Wallace had pleaded guilty in a Las Vegas court to "compromising approximately 500,000 Facebook accounts" in order to deliver "more than 27 million spam messages." What might amaze the...
CAUCE, M3AAWG, and LAP publish Operation Safety-Net
CAUCE is proud to announce the publication of the new Operation Safety-Net. This document is intended for business and government leaders (but interesting to anyone), and contains 60 pages of clear and readable advice. It addresses best practices for online, mobile,...
Interesting articles for May 31
Six Defendants Charged In Manhattan Federal Court In Multimillion-Dollar Text Messaging Consumer Fraud Scheme The six defendants charged today are alleged to have profited from the unlawful billing of consumers for unsolicited services. Hundreds of thousands of...
Interesting articles for May 24th
Court fines "Rachel from card services" $1.7 million For years "Rachel" has been robocalling to tout fake credit relief scams, making her one of the least popular people in America. The FTC has been working on this case for years, and now has an injunction and a fine...
Interesting articles for May 10th
FTC acts against fake weight loss affiliate spammer The Federal Trade Commission has obtained a court order temporarily halting a Glendale, California, operation that allegedly used millions of illegal spam emails, along with false weight-loss claims and fake,...
Interesting articles for May 3rd
Quebec woman accused of using botnets and malware to harass 27 year old Valérie Gignac is facing criminal charges for allegedly taking over people’s computers remotely, spying on them through their web cameras and also harassing them through their computer speakers....
CAUCE intervenes in a case about fraudulent spam
California case law currently allows spammers to send email with deceptive "From" and "Subject" lines, so long as the body of the message provides the true identity of the advertiser. For example, pornographic advertisers could send email with misleading headers to 12...
Interesting articles for April 26th
The Competition Bureau has taken action against what it considers to be deceptive marketing practices by two of Canada’s largest rental car companies, Aviscar and Budgetcar, and their parent company, Avis Budget Group Inc. ... Today’s action also marks the Bureau’s...
Interesting articles for April 19th
SendGrid Account Breach Was Used to Attack Coinbase, a Bitcoin Exchange Ongoing attacks against ESPs prove they are still high value targets for scammers. New York Times Bits blog
Interesting articles for this week
Court upholds FTC sanctions against affiliate marketers. Large scale spammer LeadClick Media has to pay $16 million. Press release CRTC, Competition Bureau Enforcement Actions Show Anti-Spam Law Has Teeth Michael Geist summarizes the first three cases to be...
CASL Draws Third Blood
Plentyoffish Media Inc. pays $48,000 for alleged violation of Canada's anti-spam law March 25, 2015 – Ottawa–Gatineau – Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) today...
CASL Draws Second Blood
Competition Bureau takes $30,000,000 CASL action against Avis and Budget March 11, 2015 — Ottawa, ON — Competition Bureau The Competition Bureau has taken action against what it considers to be deceptive marketing practices by two of Canada’s largest rental car...
