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Rich User? Spam Me and Pay $1 Billion!

An American company sued a spammers group

By Bogdan Popa, Security and Search Engines Editor

2nd of May 2007, 21:06 GMT

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The anti-spam organization Unspam Technologies decided to sue an anonymous group of spammers and require them $1 billion in damages. The company is aiming to discover the real
group of spammers and block their attempts that are now representing almost 90 percent of all email traffic. According to Viruslist, the organization accused the spam group for sending unsolicited mail messages and for hiding their identity to avoid being detected. The complaint was filed against the "John Doe" name because the spam group was anonymous and the organization hopes to identify the real spammers.

"The group has collected a lot of data since the launch of Project Honey Pot in 2004; it hopes the data can now be used to track those responsible for the flood of spam in users' mailboxes. The court will also be asked to permit the examination of ISP records. This would provide crucial links to spammers, making it possible to find concrete suspects in what has already been termed a landmark case for the anti-spam world," the same source reported.

In the past, there were several signs that spamming tends to become an important illegal activity as it is regarded as one of the most useful advertising techniques. However, spamming is extremely dangerous and this was proved in the past when the unwanted messages caused even the death of the victims. As you might know, a victim of the spam messages bought pills from the websites advertised through the emails and was found dead. It seems like she was poisoned with some prohibited chemical agents that caused her death. At this time, there is no 100 percent efficient antispam solution because even Gmail, the service that was regarded as the most powerful mail product was assaulted by unwanted messages.

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