Spam is unsolicited mail that is mainly promotional in nature and has junk value some spam messages even contain viruses or Trojans. It is a major source of nuisance for all Internet surfers, and its proliferation has begun to weigh in the minds of many Internet surfers, who have now begun to doubt the efficiency of the email transmission system.
It was in December 2003 that the US government woke up to spam’s nuisance value and passed the Can Spam (Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography And Marketing Act of 2003) Act, which is regarded as the first national safety benchmark against unsolicited commercial e-mail. The “Can Spam” Act forbids spammers from sending any unsolicited commercial e-mails by using a false return addresses; it also forbids them from using dictionaries (note to client: I think the author means “directories) to generate these unsolicited mailers. The use of misleading subject lines is also forbidden and the Act makes it mandatory for emails to include an unsubscribe option. Any violation of these rules constitutes a crime, which can land the spammer in jail for up to one year.
Many savvy spammers have...