The FTC got a federal court in Chicago this week to shut down a huge spam network and freeze their assets. This organization is thought to be the largest spam network in existence, hijacking unwitting users' computers to daily send billions of their spam messages touting male enhancement drugs and other pharmaceuticals.
Freezing the assets of this organization will hit them where it hurts -- the investigation indicates they grossed as much as $400,000 a month. I don't know if the government is allowed to seize assets in these cases as they can do in drug cases. If they can't, we need to get a law enacted enabling them to do so. Maybe it will help with the big Wall Street bailout!
"Court unplugs spam sender." The Dallas Morning News; October 15, 2008; p. 5A.
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