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iTl-mai boxes are filing up with more X-J offers for business opportunities than any other kind of unsolicited commercial e-mail. The Federal TYade Commission has identified the 12 scams that are most likely to arrive in consumers’ e-mail boxes. The “dirty dozen” are:
1 Business opportunities: These
• business opportunities make it sound easy to start a business that will bring lots of income without much work or cash outlay. The solicitations trumpet unbelievable earnings claims of $140 a day, $1,000 a day, or more, and claim that the business doesn’t involve selling, meetings, or personal contact with others, or that someone else will do all the work.
The scam: Many of these are illegal pyramid schemes masquerading as legitimate opportunities to earn money.
2 Bulk e-mail: Bulk e-mail solicita•
tions ofTer to sell you lists of email addresses, by the millions, to which you can send your own bulk solicitations. Some offer software that automates the sending of e-mail messages to thousands or millions of recipients. Others offer the service of sending bulk e-mail solicitations on your behalf. Some of these offers say, or imply, that you can make a lot of money using this marketing method.
The problem: Sending bulk e-mail violates the terms of service of most Internet service providers. If you use one
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