Specialty Technical Publishers

Wed Aug 18 23:38:54 UTC 2004

Invoicing for unsolicited materials is commonly referred to as "mail 
fraud" hereabouts.
The courts have consistently upheld the notion that such materials can 
be considered gifts.
IANAL but I would advise /dev/nulling all further correspondence from 
these losers.

-- MAB

On Aug 18, 2004, at 18:36, Mike Lewinski wrote:

>
> Has anyone else has run into these scumbags? Sometime last winter I 
> received a call along the lines of "We'd like to send you some 
> materials to review". Well, they sent some "Internet Law encyclopedia" 
> along with an invoice for ~$700. Of course, there was no cost 
> mentioned in the sales call- for all I knew they were going to send me 
> a brochure about their product. I can say with 100% certainty that I 
> would never have authorized them to send me something like this had 
> they mentioned the cost without much further discussion as to what I 
> was receiving.
>
> This is just a general heads-up to a sleazy business practice for a 
> sleazy company that is now attempting to extort money.
>