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The FTC is considering a reward program to help turn spammers’ business associates into snitches: FTC Assesses Reward System for Catching Spammers
The text of the report is here: A CAN-SPAM Informant Reward System [PDF]
I envisioned rewarding revenge-minded spam victims, but the report states that such “cybersleuths” would be much less likely to generate admissible evidence than insiders. But I bet there are some enterprising spam victims out there who would be more than willing to take a few risks for such a reward.
In any case, the great thing about this idea is that (unlike CAN-SPAM) it might actually work.
