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US regulators have obtained a court order to shut down a sex-oriented spam operation that has sent out millions of emails urging recipients to "date lonely housewives".According to the Federal Trade Commission, a federal court in Chicago has issued an order freezing the assets of the operation, which officials say "violates nearly every provision of the CAN-SPAM Act", the federal law aimed at curbing unwanted email.
Named in the FTC complaint were Cleverlink Trading of California, Real World Media, and their owners, Brian Muir, Jesse Goldberg and Caleb Wolf Wickman.
The FTC says these companies control more than 180 websites, including wantmorebabes.com, hotobjectofdesire.biz, maxfulltime. info, wiveswhocheat69.biz and hook uptomorrow.com
It says the messages are designed to make the recipients think they come from "a purported internet dating service containing lonely housewives who want casual sexual relationships".
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"The purpose of the spam is to make money," the complaint says.
"The spam messages drive consumers to websites soliciting consumers to purchase access to the defendants' main membership site. The money that consumers pay for the site access goes directly to the defendants. In a four-month period alone, the defendants took in nearly $US700,000 ($920,000) in membership fees."
The operators used an offshore payment processor at St Kitts in the Caribbean and used a Cyprus-based company name and address as a front.
The FTC says the operation violates virtually every provision of the US spam law by routing messages through other people's computers, falsifying contact email addresses and failing to give recipients a way to stop receiving the messages.
The spam also includes sexual materials in the initially viewable area of the email, in violation of the FTC's adult labelling rule.
A hearing is pending on an injunction and an FTC request to recover "ill-gotten gains" of the operation.