Overheard in the tech blogosphere » backscatter spam http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/overheard A Whatis.com blog Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:32:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Overheard – Backscatter spam http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/overheard/overheard-backscatter-spam/ http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/overheard/overheard-backscatter-spam/#comments Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:17:24 +0000 Margaret Rouse http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/overheard/?p=2998 Sending spam, or hiring someone to send it for you, is illegal in many countries, including the U.S., where it violates the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. Using false or misleading header information is also a violation of the CAN-SPAM Act, but since the spammer has already decided to break the law by sending the spam in the first place, adding the crime of email address forging is trivial.

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