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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."

2 of 92 comments (clear)

  1. Sprint sends me SMS advertisements every day by gelfling · · Score: 4, Interesting

    About one in 10 SMS messages I get are from Sprint (I'm a Sprint customer) advertising a service, ringtone or some other downloadable. So excuse me while I don't feel Verizon's pain.

  2. Re:Letter by daeg · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I hate the spam I get from Cingular. I've called several times about it, replied back with "STOP" like they tell me to, all to no avail.

    Cingular even refuses to turn my text messaging off (I never use it, I hate text messages).