Some Fuel Saver Claims are bogus
Last December Florida sued an Indian River County man for allegedly running a
bogus email operation touting a bogus fuel saver.
The complaint alleges that Rik Rodriguez, 47, is responsible for sending thousands of illegal emails that linked recipients to websites selling a device called Fuel Saver Pro that falsely claimed to increase automobile gas mileage and decrease harmful pollutants and emissions. However do not let this deter you from trying products that claim they have a fuel saver and cleans up our air, as there are a few of them do what they claim.
The lawsuit filed by Attorney Generals office joined the Federal Trade Commission efforts against the paid spammers who inundate email in-boxes for commissions on product sales.
In October 2004, the FTC sued the company that manufactured and marketed the so called fuel-saving device, as well as those who acted as resellers of the product online.
"Spam is a pervasive and growing threat to unsuspecting computer users everywhere. "While spam is annoying, it is even worse when used to encourage recipients to spend their hard-earned money on phony products."
Mr. Rodriguez allegedly sent illegal emails to over 2,500 recipients. Many messages had false information to disguise where the emails were sent from and describe the fuel saver product on how it worked and how to use it.
The spam emails were captured by Microsoft through its MSN Hotmail trap accounts and were referred to the Attorney General's Office to assist the investigation. Email is still considered mail and it looks like Microsoft reads and keeps copies of your private mail messages for some reason or for one.
The emails that are the subject of this action were sent before Florida's Anti-Spam law was enacted, so the lawsuit against Rodriguez alleges violations of the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act. Today it is illegal to spam any one in any state.
In addition, the emails are said to have violated the Federal CAN-SPAM law. Rodriguez faces penalties of up to $10,000 per violation of Florida law. The lawsuit will be litigated by the Attorney General's Economic Crimes Division.
Although spam as they call it is nothing more then soliciting through email it just goes to show you how your government exerts to much authority over the people and this should not be in a free country. And just shows again that there are 2 sets of rules, one for the rich and one for the poor.
Commercials are nothing more the spam (soliciting their product) but it is forced upon you every time you turn on you tv. In a 2 hour movie you have to watch 1 hour of spam. Try getting rid of commercials and see if you can have a law against them selling products or services over the air and you will find out who the rich are and who runs this country. But the poor little man trying to do the same thing over the internet is a bad guy, think about it.
Also some of these fuel saver products really do work in saving fuel and cleaning up the air. Don’t let a few scammers out there keep you from trying products that work and work well. These people that are scammers are keeping people from using a good fuel savers so you won’t try them, keeping you from using less fuel.