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First Lawsuit Against Cell-Phone Spammers

Posted by timothy on from the go-cat-go dept.

BMcWilliams writes "The PR machine at Verizon Wireless hasn't made any noise about this yet, but the carrier last month filed a lawsuit against some Rhode Island spammers who targeted its cell phone customers with over four million text-message ads for ephedra, penis pills, mortgages, etc. The timing of the lawsuit is interesting, given that the FCC is in the process of hammering out rules governing cell-phone spam. I am told the Verizon litigation is the first of its kind in the USA. My story about the lawsuit, and a copy of Verizon Wireless' complaint, are available here."

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  1. Mary-Kate Olsen, 1986 - 2004 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Truly sad, she will be missed

    1. Re:Mary-Kate Olsen, 1986 - 2004 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      You silly billy, she hasn't died. She just slipped through a crack in the pavement.

  2. Re:Luckily for us... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I hate loud trains, especially when I'm near them and they blow their horns. When I was young I would put pennies on the tracks to flatten them, but once when I did this they blew the horn right next to me and it hurt my ears something awful. So the next time that train came along I wore ear plugs. I also put a small child on the track so that the conductor would feel awful for the rest of his life. I got back at that son of a bitch, and he ended up hanging himself.