Many websites claim to offer home business opportunties. Some people do make money at home through online jobs, but many of these so-called opportunities are scams.

Spam is an industry. Mass e-mailers maintain lists of e-mail addresses, often "harvested" by spamware bots - specialized computer applications - from Web sites.

The CAN-SPAM Act of 2003, signed into law by President Bush on December 16, 2003, establishes the first national standards for the sending of commercial e-mail and requires the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to enforce its provisions. The bill's full name is an acronym: Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003. Critics of the law's perceived weaknesses sometimes refer to it as You CAN SPAM, and they are right.

Every single day 30,000,000 emails are sent around the world. 50% of those emails are spam. Blue chip companies and even Governments are taking drastic measures in spam control. The most recent evidence of this is the Canspam Act which was passed by the US Senate early in 2004. If you look at what

© 2004, John Calder http://www.TheEzine.net On January 1, 2004, the "CAN-SPAM Act", short for "Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003", took effect. Marketers who send any form of commercial email as defined by the act will need to comply with CAN-SPAM rules