[pchelpers] News:Payback time: Spammer fined $1 million
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- Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 08:09:54 +1200
By Howard Witt
Chicago Tribune
AUSTIN, Texas — For every weary Internet user who's ever slogged through
an e-mail inbox infested with junk spam, payback time has finally arrived.
The state of Texas and Microsoft have just throttled a 24-year-old
University of Texas graduate once ranked among the world's worst
purveyors of spam, fining him at least $1 million, stripping him of most
of his ill-gotten assets and forcing him to stop sending nuisance
e-mails forever.
The punishments are contained in settlements of two civil lawsuits filed
by the Texas attorney general and Microsoft against the spammer, Ryan
Pitylak, who admitted to sending out a mind-boggling 25 million nuisance
e-mails every day at the height of his spamming operation in 2004.
What's more, Pitylak now says he's been reborn as an anti-spammer, and
he's offering his skills to Internet companies to help them fight the
same computer-clogging spam he used to transmit.
More here:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2003038460_spammer04.html
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