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Verizon Wins Injunction Against Text Spammer

Posted by Zonk on from the seek-another-line-of-business dept.

bulled writes "CNet is running a story illustrating the US court system's ongoing harsh opinion about unwarranted communications of any kind. Verizon Wireless recently won a lawsuit against a company that was delivering massive numbers of spam text messages to its customers. Specialized Programming and Marketing and Henderson was ordered to pay more than $200,000 in damages to Verizon Wireless, some two years after Verizon filed the suit against the company. In 2005 Specialized Programming sent some 100,000 emails to Verizon phones. Verizon now has an injunction against the Marketing firm, another win for a company that has developed a reputation for going after spammers."

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  1. what about the customers? by DJCacophony · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Thanks for stopping the spam, Verizon, but are you going to keep all those damages for yourself?

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    1. Re:what about the customers? by Jhon · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Yeah... that makes sense. However, is that cash in hand? Or would they be justified in keeping it as "damanges" for needing to address user complains/credits? I know two customers who spent time on the phone on more than one occation to get SMS credit due to spam. They got their money back, but Verizon spent "time/money" addressing/fixing their customer's problem.

      How much time/effort needs to be put in to determining who gets what?

  2. Mr two faced system by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I wonder how harsher the sentence would be if it was some "hacker" kid who was sending the spam.

    $200,000 seems pretty cheap for a computer crime, He should have got life in jail and a $1,000,000 fine.