Note to Spam King: You Got Nailed
Howard Witt writes in The Chicago Tribune:
AUSTIN, Texas -- For every weary Internet user who has ever slogged through an e-mail inbox infested with junk spam, payback time has finally arrived.More here.
The State of Texas and Microsoft Corp. have just throttled a 24-year-old University of Texas graduate once ranked among the world's worst purveyors of spam, fining him at least $1 million, stripping him of most of his ill-gotten assets and forcing him to stop sending nuisance e-mails forever.
The punishments are contained in settlements of two civil lawsuits filed by the Texas attorney general and Microsoft against the spammer, Ryan Pitylak, who admitted to sending out a mind-boggling 25 million e-mails every day at the height of his spamming operation in 2004.
What's more, Pitylak now says he has been reborn as an anti-spammer, and he is offering his skills to Internet companies to help them fight the same computer-clogging spam he used to transmit.
The lawsuit settlements were reached quietly last month in U.S. District Court although neither state officials nor Microsoft representatives have spoken publicly about them.
posted by Fergie @ 6/02/2006 07:42:00 AM
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