Violations

A person may not conspire to or knowingly:

(a)use a protected computer of another to relay or retransmit multiple commercial electronic mail messages with the intent to deceive or mislead recipients or an electronic mail service provider as to the origin of the message;

(b)materially falsify header information in multiple commercial electronic mail messages and intentionally initiate the transmission of the messages;

(c)register, using information that materially falsifies the identity of the actual registrant, for fifteen

(15)or more electronic mail accounts or on-line user accounts of two or more domain names, and intentionally initiate the transmission of multiple commercial electronic mail messages from one or any combination of accounts or domain names;

(d)falsely represent the right to use five

(5)or more internet protocol addresses and intentionally initiate the transmission of multiple commercial electronic mail messages from the internet protocol addresses;

(e)access a protected computer of another without authorization, and intentionally initiate the transmission of multiple electronic mail advertisements from or through the protected computer;

(f)violate Subsections (a), (b), (c),

(d)or

(e)of this Section by providing or selecting addresses to which a message was transmitted, knowing that:

(1)the electronic mail addresses of the recipients were obtained using an automated means from an internet website or proprietary online service operated by another person; and

(2)the website or online service included, at the time the addresses were obtained, a notice stating that the operator of the website or online service will not transfer addresses maintained by COL 3/18/2024 CH. 46 FORGERY, FRAUDULENT PRACTICES AND TELEPHONE RECORDS the website or online service to any other party for the purposes of initiating or enabling others to initiate electronic mail messages; or

(g)violate Subsections (a), (b), (c),

(d)or

(e)of this Section by providing or selecting electronic mail addresses of recipients obtained using an automated means that generates possible electronic mail addresses by combining names, letters, or numbers into numerous permutations.