[pchelpers] News:Verizon Wireless Closes Spammer Case

By Ed Sutherland
February 27, 2007

Verizon Wireless (Quote) wrapped up another lawsuit against spammers
that allegedly deluged the carrier's subscribers with offers of holiday
cruises and vacations. 

A New Jersey U.S. District Court ruled Florida-based Specialized
Programming and Marketing LLC and its owner must pay Verizon more than
$200,000 and barred further contact with customers.

The ruling closes Verizon's case against vacation spammer Passport
Holiday, originally filed in October 2005. Verizon amended the complaint
in February 2006 after Passport Holiday was fined $10,000 and named
Specialized Programming and Marketing as the company that sent the spam.

Specialized Programming and Marketing was not available for comment.

The short text messages encouraged Verizon Wireless customers to call to
claim a Bahamas cruise they supposedly won. Verizon charged the text
messages violated the Federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act.

"Text messaging is a great and increasingly popular way to communicate,
but unwanted or unsolicited text message spam to our customers' handsets
is unacceptable," Steve Zipperstein, Verizon Wireless vice president of
legal and external affairs, said in a statement.

Verizon has other spam-related lawsuits pending. Last year, the carrier
filed lawsuits against three Florida telemarketers. In those cases,
Verizon Wireless subscribers were told they'd won a resort trip or Ford
Explorer and must call a toll-free number.

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