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!"