Spammers Sue Spamee

sebFlyte writes "In an interesting take on the law, some (alleged) spammers are suing some poor chap who got them blocked by ISPs due to the fact they kept sending him spam. According to Spamhaus the company doing the suing is on their books as spammer, and also as a spyware company... If this case goes the wrong way, things could get very sticky for anyone wanting to report spam."

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Vital Data for Your Spamming Company

[dondelelcaro]

Just a quick look through the atriks (yes, they're "at risk") website shows a number of interesting "products".

My personal favorite, the "Atriks Personal Domain Owners with Credit Cards" Database.

7,000,000+ consumers have registered a domain for their own personal use and have created Web sites that share everything from jokes to family pictures. A key part of their registration is supplying credit card information, resulting in a file with all major credit card selects available.

Unless you've been sleeping for the past 10 years, this means harvesting whois records (against the ToS) and using them to spam people. SpamHaus tidbits.

paypal link...

[St. Arbirix]

This guy is a Computer Science and Engineering undergrad at Ohio State. It's wonderful that he could have influenced so much power over these people but I'm willing to bet he doesn't have much money otherwise.

Here's his site with the paypal link. There's some other goodies about the lawsuit and him on the site.

It has happened before

[Duc de Montebello]

In 2002, in Australia, a spammer tried to sue the guy who reported them to the SPEWS blacklist. Case was dismissed, see the result here:

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page /0,5478,5284073%255E421,00.html

and

http://t3-v-mcnicol.org/