New York Spam Ring Lawsuits

Iphtashu Fitz writes "Microsoft and the Attorney General of New York have announced multiple lawsuits against what they term as a spam ring operating throughout New York and responsible for sending billions of illegal junk e-mail. According to articles at ABCNews.com, CNet News.com and elsewhere the state of New York has filed 6 lawsuits against alleged notoriuous spammer Scotty Richter and accomplices. Richter is well known among the anti-spam community, holding the dubious distinction of being ranked number 3 on the Spamhaus Registry of Known Spam Offenders. Microsoft has seperately filed 5 other lawsuits."

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You've got....

[Lipongo]

Lawsuits.

Goodbye!

In need of SPAM

[Anonymous Coward]

Please forward all spam to info@optinbig.com

AAaaah!!

[GnrlFajita]

Microsoft is back in court, and this time I'm rooting for them? I tell ya, people, the world is seriously coming to an end.

Between this, the world going dark and those smart helicopters, this has turned out to be a very, very frightening day. I'm definitely switching to the 2-ply tinfoil for my hat.

Re:I just want to know what netblocks the spamers

[Anonymous Coward]

...that way I can just block them at the firewall.

Oh MY GOD! You just solved the problem of SPAM!!!! Next stop Disneyland!

Re:hang em high

[Frymaster]

be careful! apparently rumsfeld met with some notorious spammers back in '83 and knew full well about their stockpiles of "weapons of mailserver destruction" and said and did nothing.

wouldn't want that to come out in a trial, now would we...

Spam Ring

[Suit_N_Tie]

One Spam ring to rule them all...

Re:The Federal "You Can Spam" Law

[Davak]

With all the pigphucking it's hard to tell if you are trolling or not. You did stir a thought in my head...

Microsoft and New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer scheduled a news conference Thursday morning to announce the lawsuits.

Is it common for companies to join with states to sue somebody? We often chuckle that microsoft wants to rule the world... but this is a little too much cooperation with the law if you ask me. I use XP but this is what I imagine happened:

Bill: "Hey, this @sshole is sending out a lot of spam and people are bitching it's Microsoft's fault"
AG: "We agree. They are bitching because we can't stop it either. Hell, we don't even know how to trace spam to obtain evidence."
Bill: "I'll give you the geekpower if you arrest the bastards. We'll all sue and regain our losses."
*They try to high-5 each other and miss*

Very strange bedfellows...

Davak

Damned Microsoft!!

[erroneus]

No wait... Yay Microsoft!!!!

I'm very confused...

Re:Hooray!

[Misch]

There are reasons we are allowed the right to bare arms.

Because we need to get a good tan?