[pchelpers] News:AOL wins $5M judgment against spammer

By Matthew Barakat, Associated Press Writer
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A man who sent billions of junk e-mails hawking online 
college degrees, sexually explicit websites and "generic Viagra" must 
pay more than $5 million in penalties to America Online, a federal judge 
ruled.

Christopher William Smith, of Prior Lake, Minn., was considered one of 
the world's worst spammers, operating under the name Rizler. He is now 
in a Minnesota jail awaiting trial on criminal charges that he violated 
federal drug laws while operating an online pharmacy.

On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton ordered Smith to pay $5.3 
million in damages and $287,000 in legal fees to AOL, which filed a 
civil suit against Smith under a 2004 federal law known as Can-Spam.

AOL spokesman Nicholas Graham said Smith "was the poster child for the 
Can-Spam Act."

More here:
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2006-01-26-aol-spam-case_x.htm

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