Dictionary Spammer Fined $55,000 for Spam Attack

Lawrence_Bird writes "In a first, a Japanese district court has ordered a spammer to pay restitution to NTT DoCoMo for abuse of their imode system. 'The damage caused by large amounts of e-mail not reaching their destinations should be covered by the sender,' said the judge. The fine is about $55,000 and was based on an estimated cost to NTT of 1.2 yen per undelivered spam ($0.01) for the 4 million spams that were undeliverable. What is most startling is NTT DoCoMo assertion that of the 950 million emails they receive each day, 880 million are not deliverable!"

Comments

Great

[captainclever]

If only there were more rulings like this one, maybe it would make spammers think twice if they knew they could be fined.

I want to see this guy fined per DELIVERABLE message aswell though.

Re:A great precedent!

[override11]

Thats why I dont understand why ISP's dont get more involved in fighting SPAM, its costing THEM money. You would think that a big backbone like UUNET would spend a chunk of change to create 100% accurate filters and be pro-active on blocking out this bull-crap. It would only benifit them down the road.

It would even waggle the magic word 'ROI' in front of the exec's, so why isnt it happening yet??