Bogus 'Do Not E-mail' Web Site Nabs Addresses for Junk
By Jay Munro
PC Magazine
Feb. 12? We all hate unsolicited e-mails, or spam. It's time consuming, offending, and at times, dangerous.
The U.S. government has passed the CAN SPAM bill, but it is still being debated whether it really addresses the problem. So an opportunity to sign up for a national "don't spam me" list sounds pretty good, right? Wrong.
One of our readers reported finding a link to the "National Do Not Email Registry" on the bottom of an e-mail in the "opt-out" section. If you clicked on the link, you are taken to an official looking site (http://unsub.us) where you can (supposedly) sign up for the list. The site is a look alike for the real "National Do Not Call Registry" (https://www.donotcall.gov/default.aspx), maintained by the government, but is not a government site.
The site appears to be the answer to the CAN-SPAM act that became law in January, but unlike the Do Not Call site, it only refers back to itself. There is no contact information to check its validity, and the domain record at Network Solutions is private, requiring their relay of snail mail contact only. If you click on the Privacy policy link , it gives you a "Forbidden" error.
More: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/ZDM/antispam_scam_pcmag_040212.html

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