"Porn Spammer" settles with FTC

AN OUTFIT which the FTC claimed was a porn spammer has paid the authority $465,000 to go away and agreed to stick the words "sexually explicit" in spam headers in future.

The deal means that TJ Web Productions will carry on as normal and does not have to admit that it did anything wrong.

TJ has also agreed to allow people receiving its spam to opt out of receiving future e-mail and provide a postal address, the FTC said.

TJ Web Productions was targeted as part of a crackdown on X-rated spam announced in July 2005. Seven companies have been charged with violating federal laws and five have been fined. None have been shut down.

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