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Spammer Gets $11 Billion Fine

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the thats-a-lotta-shifts-at-the-dq dept.

Spad writes "It's not a typo, The Inquirer (amongst others) is reporting that an Iowa-based ISP has been awarded $11.2 billion in a case against spammer James McCalla, who was found guilty of sending over 280 million illegal spam emails. Under state law, the ISP was entitled to $10 per illegal e-mail sent. According to the Quad-City Times, McCalla has also been banned from using a computer for 3 years. From the article: "CIS acknowledged that it is unlikely to see any of the judgment money but said that it was time that spammers learnt that their actions would result in an economic death penalty"."

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  1. Chew on your own hay by suso · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's ok. MR JAMES MCCALLA read an email a week ago about how to get out of debt by declaring bankruptcy.

  2. you can count on friends by BushCheney08 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Perhaps he should contact his friend in Nigeria.

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  3. Re:Guess they learnt their lesson! by jimjamjoh · · Score: 3, Funny

    http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=learnt

    you might also check out the definition for "comeuppance" while you're there

  4. Re:Would love to see more of this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Personally I love my server setup to deal with Spam: greylisting -> postfix -> mailscanner -> razor2 -> pyzor -> dcc checks -> spam assassin -> clamav -> bitdefender -> mailscanner -> ~/Maildir I haven't had a real spam get into my INBOX in months

    Wow, do you get any mail at all?

  5. Man, I really pissed off the grammar nazis... by digitaldc · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...and the spelling nazis at the same time! Guess I learnt my lesson :(

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  6. Re:I would rather that... by BushCheney08 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can't even begin to tell you how many times I've passed up opportunities to get laid because I was just too busy deleting spam...

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  7. Re:Would love to see more of this by Sneftel · · Score: 4, Funny

    greylisting -> postfix -> mailscanner -> razor2 -> pyzor -> dcc checks -> spam assassin -> clamav -> bitdefender -> mailscanner -> ~/Maildir

    I'm going to send you an email about Nigerian unaccredited penis enlargement viagra. I'm guessing your computer will catch on fire.

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  8. something's missing by brainspank · · Score: 3, Funny
    A lawsuit claimed that McCalla sent more than 280 million illegal spam e-mail messages.

    $280m * $10 = $2.8b ( != $11b )

    maybe they converted to Canadian for bigger effect...

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  9. Re:Bankrupcy? by pizzaman100 · · Score: 3, Funny

    They won't pay any taxes that way, but their attorney will take 40%. ;)