AOL, Microsoft, Earthlink and Yahoo are suing hundreds of marketing companies and individuals for sending deceptive spam using a new federal law called the CAN-SPAM Act, which prohibits such activities.
Online marketers who hide their identities and distribute emails advertising get-rich-quick schemes and pornography are the subjects of a coordinated legal effort and the email providers claim to have the offenders identities.
Providing false return addresses, routing email traffic through proxy computers and including advertising that is of a deceptive nature are just some of the many claims that the lawsuits contain.
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