FTC Busts Worldwide Spam Network, Spam Mafia Mourns
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By Erin Monaghan Oct 14th, 2008



Chicago has a new mob network in town, or at least it did. It seems you're going to have to get your Viagra legitimately (we mean Canada) from now on because the FTC in Chicago claims to have just busted one of the largest email spamming networks in the world. Yeah, we said in the world, at least that's what the Feds claim.



According to the Chicago Tribune, the FTC and the Northern District of Illinois U.S. District court filed an injunction against two men responsible for sending out thousands of spam emails advertising male enhancement drugs, diet pills and more miracle elixirs. The FTC says they've received more than 3 million email spam complaints that they've traced back to this specific network.

The men, one in Texas and the other in New Zealand, are accused of falsifying claims, not delivering product and making millions of dollars off the na
 
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