{"id":383,"date":"2006-04-11T02:13:06","date_gmt":"2006-04-10T19:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=383"},"modified":"2006-04-11T02:13:06","modified_gmt":"2006-04-10T19:13:06","slug":"feds-shut-down-spam-ring-for-good-cnet-newscom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/computer\/feds-shut-down-spam-ring-for-good-cnet-newscom\/","title":{"rendered":"Feds shut down spam ring for good &#8211; CNET News.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Feds+shut+down+spam+ring+for+good\/2100-7350_3-6059048.html?tag=alert\">Feds shut down spam ring for good | CNET News.com<\/a><br \/>\n<em>For more info click on above link<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In a deal with the Federal Trade Commission and the state of California, the people behind a prolific spam operation have agreed to pay $475,000 and refrain from illegal activity.<\/p>\n<p>The deal, which does not include an admission of any wrongdoing, was reached with Optin Global, Vision Media, Qing Kuang &#8220;Rick&#8221; Yang and Peonie Pui Ting Chen, the FTC said in a statement Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The defendants violated federal and state laws by sending millions of junk e-mail messages hawking mortgage loans and other products and services, the FTC charged. Consumers forwarded nearly 2 million of the messages to the agency.<\/p>\n<p>The spam operation netted the defendants $2.4 million, the FTC said. As part of the settlement, they&#8217;re required to hand over all those gains, but most of the money is gone. So they must pay $385,000 in cash and approximately $90,000 from the sale of property.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feds shut down spam ring for good | CNET News.com For more info click on above link In a deal with the Federal Trade Commission and the state of California, the people behind a prolific spam operation have agreed to pay $475,000 and refrain from illegal activity. The deal, which does not include an admission [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,35,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-scams-and-hoaxes","category-spam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}