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    Yes, I know they will likely ignore me and keep it up. I kind of -want- them to because if they continue I now have an excellent case to get them shut down and/or fined under CAN-SPAM. If someone like this is truly cluelessly rude I don't want them to stop; instead I wish to enrich myself at their expense and maybe have a little fun in the process.

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    A. Each separate email in violation of the law is subject to penalties of up to $16,000, and more than one person may be held responsible for violations. For example, both the company whose product is promoted in the message and the company that originated the message may be legally responsible. Email that makes misleading claims about products or services also may be subject to laws outlawing deceptive advertising, like Section 5 of the FTC Act. The CAN-SPAM Act has certain aggravated violations that may give rise to additional fines. The law provides for criminal penalties – including imprisonment – for:

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    All their emails come from Gmail accounts so tracking them by WHOIS is not going to help. Spammers also use 'disposable' domains and buy big blocks of IPs just knowing that someone is going to block them so that tactic is also of limited utility. If I really wanted it to stop I could just as easily ask our network admin to firewall their IPs or set my email filter to ignore anything with the words "Organic SEO" or the like in it as well. But, I'd rather they blunder themselves into a real problem, and I'm happy to help them do so.

    If I was vindictive I *might* even go so far as to suggest that anyone who has gotten this spam or just wants to have a little fun with them call them from a throwaway account (or from a ID-blocked number) at their voice line, which is no doubt a Google Voice account linked to their cell phone, at random times (perhaps after midnight?) to ask them if they have any specials or discounted offers, or even to ask them if they feel a little guilty about annoying people....

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    Even if I was to pursue someone under CANSPAM I don't know that it would be worth my time and expense, so I take the easy route and just report them. :-)

    The infobunker.com facility sounds awesome and I didn't mean to be sarcastic with my comments, I was wondering if there were other places like that which I could purchase as a home. :-)
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