The bounty hunters are here
US Federal Trade Commission says the US government must be generous
with its rewards if it decides to encourage 'bounty hunters' to track
down email spammers
In a report to Congress, the US Federal Trade Commission
(FTC) has said that the US government must be prepared to
be generous with its rewards if it decides to encourage
'bounty hunters' to track down email spammers.
According to the FTC, rewards of up to $250,000 will be
required to encourage people to snitch on friends or
acquaintances who send out bulk unsolicited email. The FTC
also said that the cash will have to come from the federal
budget, rather than settlements collected from spammers.
But the FTC is not convinced of the effectiveness of such a
bounty scheme: "The commission does not believe that the
vast majority of consumers who are now forwarding
300,000 pieces of spam daily to the FTC spam database are
likely to be a good source for such information," the FTC
said in a report to Congress.
20 September 2004
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