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Originally Posted by cactus_joe
So I take it that the 500 spams per day that I receive must come from servers in India or something? This law doesnt do much in my opinion to protect the average citizen, only punish legitimate businesses that make mistakes.
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Well, I didn't say it was a
good law. As it turns out, most spam does in fact originate from the US and South Korea (where consumer broadband access is ubiquitous).
Spammers have teamed with crackers, and in some instances, organized crime to create trojans that infect always-on, broadband-connected computers. These compromised machines are used to inject spam into the mail stream without the owners' knowledge or consent.
Very often the spam is then bounced off of unsecured mail servers outside the US to further obfuscate the true origin of the spam.
I've not yet heard of any instance of the government pursuing a legitimate business that merely made a mistake with CAN SPAM. However, CAN SPAM violations were crucial to the conviction of top ten spammer Jeremy Janes in Virginia, which was just upheld by the state supreme court. This guy was sending Make Penis Fast, penny stock shills, and other unsavory missives by the billions.