US agency moves to stop x-rated spamming

January 11 2005

By Laurie Kellman

Washington - The United States Federal Trade Commission has shut down six companies it accused of sending x-rated emails in disguise and fraudulently charging recipients who joined sexually explict websites in its first legal case involving pornographic Internet spam.

A federal judge on January 5 granted the agency's request for a restraining order against the companies and their executives for allegedly violating federal laws governing commercial electronic mail - commonly known as spam.

The Nevada companies named in the FTC complaint were Global Net Solutions, Open Space Enterprises, Southlake Group, and WTFRC, which does business as Reflected Networks.

Also named in the complaint were Global Net Vetures of Britain and Wedlake, whose headquarters address was not listed.

Among the laws allegedly violated was the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003.

Dubbed "Can Spam", the law requires unsolicited commercial email that contains sexually oriented material to include the words "sexually explicit" in the subject line.

Spammers who violate the rule face possible imprisonment and criminal fines of up to $250 000 for individuals and $500 000 for an organisation.

Tracking down violators can be difficult because spammers often try to escape being directly identified by using forged return addresses or by bouncing their emails through unprotected relay computers on the Internet. - Sapa-AP

i host with reflected.
:D

are you down? or how did it effect you as a customer?

na, nothing is down and nothing is going to go down.
reflected is a great hosting company, and this is no reason for me to leave a long standing solid relationship. when this all pans out youll see that reflected isnt really involved in anything.

hmmm, now that the FTC is involved, I think you may want to re assess

...and Ibill wants you back!

Paying out on Halloweeeeeennnnnn hahaha

Nope check out reflected.net press release on their site

01/11/05 - The FTC's recent press release regarding the investigation of WTFRC, Inc. of Las Vegas alleges charges being brought forth against several individuals and corporations which operate out of the Las Vegas, NV area. While the FTC charges WTFRC, Inc., doing business as Reflected Networks, Inc., as a defendant in the case, the charges are not against Reflected Networks, Inc. of Illinois, with its presence at www.reflected.net. For more information please contact pr@reflected.net.

Jon

Upon further reflection ...

I host with reflected.net as well and have no downtime
that being said, I'll be opening hosting up with phatservers just in case...

WTFRC???


Copycats :P

WTFRC???


Copycats :P [/b][/quote]
LOL Yug.... I wondered why no-one else had noticed that there :)

WTFRC inc. may be just a Typo.... could be a P/L ;-)

Sure it isn't the one and the same? Who the fuck really cares anyway I suppose ;-))