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Some consumers find unsolicited commercial email - also known as "spam" - annoying and time consuming; others have lost money to bogus offers that arrived in their email in-box.
If you get spam email that you think is deceptive, forward it to spam@uce.gov.
The FTC uses the spam stored in this database to pursue law enforcement actions against people who send deceptive email.
At the end of 2003, spam accounted for 70% of all e-mail received in the USA and 50% in Europe, with many of the spam messages relating to sexual enhancements or pornography.
As over 75% of spam received in the UK originated in the USA, however, it was feared that the new law might not be effective.
Spamming, the act of sending spam, is contrary to netiquette, the Internet's code of conduct, and is likely to result in the advertiser being bombarded by flames, angry messages, and ‘dumping’, the downloading of large, useless files.