Moreover, the senders of the mails with a title deluding recipients even without false exaggerated contents will be punished by related laws from July.

The Fair Trade Commission (FTC) announced on the 23rd `Spam mail regulation measurement` as above to prevent rashly sent advertising mails.

According to the measurement, FTC will intensively control △the advertising mails without representative`s name and address, △commercial mails without `ads` mark on the title, △mails typed as `광*고` or `광~고` in order to make anti-Spam mail software not recognize them as advertising mails, and △mails deluding recipients by adding `answer` or `Re:question`.

Especially from May, based on the listed consumer`s report and the result of the investigation by virtue of the office, FTC will punish Spam mail senders with suspension of business license and a fine applying `door-to-door sales law` and `fair advertisement expression law`, and accuse them for 3 year imprisonment.

In addition, FTC decided to punish for the mails with a title deluding consumers even without false exaggerated contents from July, when new electronic commerce protection law is put into operation.

Lee Sung-Goo chief of electronic commerce protection division in FTC said, “recipients` mental stress and disturbance of business, and expenses of Internet service businesspersons are increasing so much that we prepared this strong measurement. We are promoting the regulation on the large-size advertising mails. ”