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Peru - National Institute of Defense of the Consumer and Intellectual Property - INDECOPI

Peru has approved on May 2004 a specific law "LEY N° 28493" dealing with spam e-mails. The law will be applicable as soon its regulation will be approved by the Ministry of Transport and Communication (probably by August 2005). The enforcement authority is the " Instituto Nacional de Defensa de la Competencia y de Protección de la Propiedad Intelectual". In the text of the LEY N° 28493 it is written that " sending unsolicited messages for commercial purposes without the authorization of the recipient will be illegal, and any violation criminally sanctioned". The fraudulent aspects of unsolicited messages are currently covered by specific provisions of the Criminal Code dealing with Delitos informáticos (cyber crimes), which include manipulation of personal banking data, utilization of false identity for sending e-mails, and others. In 2002, to better face the new challenges posed by cyber crimes a Multisectorial Commission was created to implement the UNGA Resolution 55/63 on "Combating the Criminal Misuse of Information Technologies".

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