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The US Federal Trade Commission this year got a court to shut down what the agency called a vast international spam network that sold prescription drugs and bogus male-enhancement products. The network has been identified as the largest "spam gang" in the world by the anti-spam organization Spamhaus. The FTC said it had received more than 3 million complaints about spam messages connected to this operation, and estimates that it may be responsible for sending billions of illegal spam messages.

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