ROM-DOS Posted January 6, 2006 CID Share Posted January 6, 2006 Spammer lands $11 billion fine Small town ISP wins huge payout By Nick Farrell: Thursday 05 January 2006, 10:30 A SMALL ISP in the town of Clinton, Iowa, has just won one of the largest payouts ever extracted from a spammer. The firm, CIS Internet Services, won $11.2 billion from James McCalla, from Florida, who was found to have sent millions of unsolicited e-mails advertising mortgage and debt consolidation services through the ISP's network. A lawsuit claimed that McCalla sent more than 280 million illegal spam e-mail messages. Frims advertised in the spam had already been ordered to cough up a billion dollars in damages. Prosecutors argued that under state law in effect at the time, CIS was entitled to $10 per illegal e-mail. The Iowa court was told the defendants "falsely and illegally" represented that their e-mails originated from the CIS domain The e-mails used the cis.net as a return address to disguise the source of the e-mails to avoid complaints. CIS acknowledged that it is unlikely to see any of the judgement money but said that it was time that spammers learnt that their actions would result in an economic death penalty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FallowEarth Posted January 6, 2006 CID Share Posted January 6, 2006 Ouch....that's a lot of bones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
compuworm Posted January 6, 2006 CID Share Posted January 6, 2006 ROM-DOS, are you an Attroney or Hitman? Wait, isn't that the same thing? Make sure you Smoke-Check your hits? Just kidding of course! Take Care, compuworm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROM-DOS Posted January 7, 2006 Author CID Share Posted January 7, 2006 LOL ~ seriously, I'm just a self-progamming virtual 'test' bot. [prototype:] NEO (Non-autonomous Evolutionary Operative) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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