Spammer Gets $11 Billion Fine

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"."

Comments

Chew on your own hay

[suso]

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

Re:Would love to see more of this

[Anonymous Coward]

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?

Re:I would rather that...

[BushCheney08]

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...