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FTC Reviews Program to Reward Spam Whistleblowers

“The FTC today issued a assessing whether and how a system that rewards members of the public for tracking down spammers would or could help improve enforcement of the CAN-SPAM Act. That Act, which became effective on January 1, 2004, required the FTC to conduct a study and provide a report to Congress on a CAN-SPAM bounty system.” [Link]

  • A CAN-SPAM Informant Reward System: A Federal Trade Commission Report to Congress (September 2004), (PDF, 79 pages)
  • Associated reports: The Difficulties of Tracing Spam Email (PDF, 21 pages) and an assessment (PDF, 29 pages) of the FTC proposal by Marsha Ferziger Nagorsky.
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