Spammer lands $11 billion fine

Quote:
A SMALL ISP in the town of Clinton, Iowa, has just won one of the largest payouts ever extracted from a spammer.

The firm, CIS Internet Services, won $11.2 billion from James McCalla, from Florida, who was found to have sent millions of unsolicited e-mails advertising mortgage and debt consolidation services through the ISP's network.

A lawsuit claimed that McCalla sent more than 280 million illegal spam e-mail messages. Frims advertised in the spam had already been ordered to cough up a billion dollars in damages.

Prosecutors argued that under state law in effect at the time, CIS was entitled to $10 per illegal e-mail.

The Iowa court was told the defendants "falsely and illegally" represented that their e-mails originated from the CIS domain The e-mails used the cis.net as a return address to disguise the source of the e-mails to avoid complaints.

CIS acknowledged that it is unlikely to see any of the judgement money but said that it was time that spammers learnt that their actions would result in an economic death penalty.
http://www.qctimes.net/articles/2006/01/04/news/local/doc43bb692ac9e86281138542.txt#top

 

And I must of received half of them

Stupid spammers, glad to see them paying for their crap

 

wooohooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Didn't this guy know about overseas servers?

 

Hahahaha, I always believe in Karma.

 

I thought it was common sense to use offshore servers for that. He deserves to get caught only for his terrible terrible simple mistake. I mean how could you just rush things without the basics. It's like going for a race in your car without making sure the brakes work.

 

how is he going to pay it off?

 

He gotta step his game up and triple the spam amount.

 

thats alot of money...

 

Good for the bugger. Gawd how I hate spam. *grrr*

 

Wow.. he's gotta sell a lot of viagra to pay that bill

 

Its gonna be hard.

 

Haha, looks like the spammer is going to spam that ISP with dollar bills now

 

that's sick.. The law should take their ass somewhere else!!

 

interesting, didn't even hear about this and this is from my area!

 

/me Bows in admiration and throws a green.

Spammers should be made to work serving in Burger King on weekned nights...

 

hey, i work at Burger King. Don't be harshing on my work place!!

 

He's going to have to sell a lot breast enlargements to cover the 11 billion. ...at least, I hope he does.

 

I can't stand excessive monetary verdicts ... except in cases like this.

More such judgements need to come out like this to discourage these pricks.

 

What happends if he doesn't pay that money? Can't he just declare bankruptcy and not pay it? Any idea anyone.