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$1 Billion Awarded in Lawsuit Against Spammers

Posted by michael on from the collecting-it-may-be-the-hard-part dept.

phoric writes "In what is believed the be the largest federal judgement in history against spammers, an ISP from eastern Iowa was awarded a $1 billion dollar judgement against three mass-mailing companies, which were said to be sending up to 10 million e-mail messages per day to the small internet provider."

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  1. Re:Guaranteed? by triclipse · · Score: 5, Informative
    Minimum due process standards require that a person be served with a summons and complaint before a default judgment - or any other kind of judgment - can be entered against a party.

    Whether they were personally served or not is a different question. However, personal service is not required. They can even be "served" with the summons and complaint by publication in a newspaper if diligent attempts at personal service have been made.

    Lack of personal service may make it easier for them to set aside the default judgment, but I doubt they will show up in court to make the proper motions.

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  2. More info in local paper (link) by SpammersAreScum · · Score: 2, Informative
    The local (Clinton, Iowa) paper had more information here. Key quote:
    CIS stated in the lawsuit that the defendants sent the spam to CIS e-mail addresses that were found on a CD-ROM titled "Bulk Mailing 4 Dummies. The court documents stated that CD-ROM included a list of more than 2.8 million e-mail addresses with the "cis.net" domain. Nearly all these addresses are fictitious, have never been assigned to a CIS subscriber and have never been used, except entered on the list included on the CD-ROM. Kramer can't be sure, but he believes the "cis" was mistakenly entered into that CD-ROM and that the creator had actually been trying to input another company's information.