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==Legal measures== {{See also|Email spam legislation by country}} From 2000 onwards, many countries enacted specific legislation to criminalize spamming, and appropriate [https://web.archive.org/web/20070706211231/http://www.spamlaws.com/index.html legislation] and [http://www.spamlaws.com/cases/index.shtml enforcement] can have a significant impact on spamming activity.<ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/184597/two_companies_fined_breaching_spam_act/?rid=-180 | title = Two companies fined for breaching the Spam Act | work = [[Computerworld]] | date = June 22, 2007 | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120316175626/http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/184597/two_companies_fined_breaching_spam_act/?rid=-180 | archive-date = March 16, 2012 }}</ref> Where legislation provides specific text that bulk emailers must include, this also makes "legitimate" bulk email easier to identify. Increasingly, anti-spam efforts have led to co-ordination between law enforcement, researchers, major consumer financial service companies and [[Internet service provider]]s in monitoring and tracking email spam, [[identity theft]] and [[phishing]] activities and gathering evidence for criminal cases.<ref>[http://www.crn.com/security/199800149 Alleged Spam King Soloway Arrested] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090317163709/http://www.crn.com/security/199800149 |date=March 17, 2009 }} May 31, 2007</ref> Analysis of the sites being [[Spamvertising|spamvertised]] by a given piece of spam can often be followed up with domain registrars with good results.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.knujon.com/knujon.html |title=Results: 54,357 site shutdowns (67,095 pending) |access-date=2008-05-23 |work=[[KnujOn]] | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080517053840/http://www.knujon.com/knujon.html| archive-date= 17 May 2008 | url-status= live}}</ref>
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