cyber laws

mallika (Querist) 07 March 2010 This query is : Resolved
Can anyone suggest me what legal action one can take against someone who sends hoax emails. For example, emails where the sender requests that a particular email to be forwarded to atleast 5 people or 7 people. Will this amount to email spamming. Can it be treated as cyber crime?Please advise me.

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Raj Kumar Makkad (Expert) 07 March 2010
No. Such emails are just directory and not mandatory and thus no offense is made out.

Devajyoti Barman (Expert) 07 March 2010
Spamming can not be equated with the offences as covered in the provisions of IT Act though you can report such abuses to your Internet Service Provider.

G. ARAVINTHAN (Expert) 08 March 2010
better to click that as spam, so that you can avoid such in future

B K Raghavendra Rao (Expert) 08 March 2010
Particular type of e-mail mentioned by you does not attract the penal provisions of Information Technology Act and hence not a cyber crime.

Guest (Expert) 08 March 2010
its not covered in IT Act. I do agree with experts.

Sanjeev Panda (Expert) 08 March 2010
The alleged Act is not covered under the Information Technology Act. However, if through such email any computer contaminant or computer virus is fed into your system or thousands of such emails are send resulting into email bombing which disrupts your email, than it is a case of cyber contravention or even cyber offence if done with dishonest and fraudelent intention to cause you loss.

Kumar Thadhani (Expert) 08 March 2010
Let us unsubsribed for spam messasages by clicking not to subsribed to avoid contamiation or computer virusis not fed into your system.

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