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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Those get-rich-quick schemes and offers for herbal Viagra crowding your e-mail inbox are not just an annoyance -- they're likely illegal as well, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Tuesday.
Two out of three spam e-mail messages contain false information of some sort, according to an analysis of unsolicited e-mail pitches collected by the FTC.
Of a random sample of 1,000 spam messages, 44 percent used a false return address to hide the sender's identity, or a misleading subject line such as re: lunch tomorrow to trick the recipient into opening it, the FTC found.
Once opened, nearly as many of those messages contained come-ons that were likely to be false, the FTC said, basing its judgment on its experience prosecuting fraudulent business practices. A full 96 percent of spam touting business or investment opportunities such as work-at-home offers was deemed to be fraudulent.
Altogether, 66 percent of the spam surveyed likely violated federal law through some sort of deceptive business practice, said Eileen Harrington, an associate director at the FTC.
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