FW: Nua Internet Surveys: May 8th, 2000//spam art ?

[Frederic Degouzon]

Me souviens d'avoir vu passer une id=E9e comme =E7a par ici...
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> Newsbytes: Global First as Spammers are Brought to Trial
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> Two Australian men have been charged with illegally spamming millions
> of Internet users, in one of the first criminal prosecutions of its
> kind in the world.
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> According to a Newsbytes report, the men were charged in Australia and
> the US for spamming Internet users with misleading investment
> information.
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> The men sent more than 4 million emails and posted messages on Yahoo!
> bulletin boards encouraging investors to buy shares in Rentech, a
> company which developed processes for manufacturing liquid hydrocarbon.
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> According to the Australian Securities and Investment Commission,
> Rentech's share price doubled on the day after the spamming and the
> volume of Rentech stock trading was "more than 10 times the previous
> month's average trading volume".
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> Nineteen charges have been made against the men in Australia, including
> dissemination of false or misleading information, operation of a
> securities business without a licence and conspiracy to commit an
> offence against a law of a foreign jurisdicition, in this case the
> United States.
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> The Securities and Exchange Commission in the US issued civil
> proceedings against the men this week.
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> <http://www.newsbytes.com/pubNews/00/148392.html>