FTC Shuts Down 'Spam Gang'

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NEW YORK Just when you thought no one cared that your e-mail box was overloaded with spam, along comes the Federal Trade Commission to prove you wrong.

The FTC said it has shuttered an operation that sent billions of spam messages around the world directing consumers to Web sites, and that the operation was responsible for as much as a third of the world’s spam e-mails. According to the FTC, the operation included participants in Australia, New Zealand, China, India, Russia, Canada and the U.S.

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