igotspam
Microsoft stops a spammer
Filed in archive Spam News by Ivy on December 15, 2006
Microsoft stops a spammer
The Microsoft corporation has succeeded in winning a law suit before a UK court, effectively stopping one spammer selling harvested e-mail spam lists. Paul Martin McDonald, the spammer and evil doer in question might have never been forced to stop his despicable way of earning $$ if it wasn't for Hotmail, Microsoft run free webmail service.

McDonald stepped on software giant's toes with his Bizads company, which sold, among others, e-mail addresses of Hotmail users. Judge Lewison was quick to decide that such sale was indeed illegal. The Out-Law reports:
"The evidence plainly established that the business of Bizads was supplying email lists of persons who had not consented to receive direct marketing mail and that it had encouraged purchasers of the lists to send emails to those people," said Lewison. "The lists contravened reg. 22, as they concerned the sending of unsolicited emails and the words of the Bizads website instigated the sending of emails."

Although the article does not explain what the punishment for the sorry sod will be, but according to law McDonald might be forced to pay for lost income and good reputation Hotmail suffered.

I would give him some time in jail too, if you ask me.

Related Entries:

Permalink: Microsoft stops a spammer
Tags: microsoft  law+suit  spam  spammer  spam+list  sell+spam  email  email  mail  microsoft+stops 
Trackback: http://publish.creative-weblogging.com/publish/mt-tb.pl/46153
img Addthis img Ask img Blinklist img del.icio.us img Digg img Fark img Facebook img Google img Lycos img Ma.gnolia Add this page to Mister Wong Mr Wong img Netscape img Netvousz img Newsvine img Reddit img StumbleUpon img Slashdot img Tailrank img Technorati img Wink img Yahoo

Vote for Microsoft stops a spammer:

  • Currently 6.75/10
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10
Rating: 6.75 out of 4 vote(s) cast.
 
Subscribe
Share It
RSSrss
See all blog subscribe options
Google google
What is RSS?
Yahoo! yahoo
Addthis Subscribe using any feed reader!
Bloglines Bloglines
Newsletter

TwitterFollow us on Twitter!