Major Anti-Spam Lawsuit to Be Filed in Virginia - UPDATE
Brian Krebs writes in The Washington Post:
A company representing Internet users in more than 100 countries is expected to file a lawsuit in Virginia on Thursday seeking the identity of individuals responsible for harvesting millions of e-mail addresses on behalf of spammers.More here.
The suit will be filed in U.S. District Court in Alexandria on behalf of Project Honey Pot, a service of Unspam Technologies LLC, a Utah-based anti-spam company that consults with private companies and government agencies.
The lead attorney on the case, Jon Praed of the Arlington, Va.-based Internet Law Group, has represented America Online and Verizon Online in successful cases against junk e-mailers. Praed said the group hopes to follow the trail from the people doing the harvesting of e-mail addresses to the actual spammers.
UPDATE: 12:36 PDT, 26 April 2007: Details announced by Project Honeypot today here.
posted by Fergie @ 4/25/2007 08:55:00 PM
1 Comments:
I can't stand spam. everytime i get a new email address, it takes only a month or two for spammers to start flooding my inbox with spam. sure, there's a filter but i still check my spam box in case there's a personal email lost somewhere in there. Still annoys me, so i'm glad project honey pot is launching that billion dollar lawsuit.
You may be interested in these links:
Ars Technica's blog entry
Class action info directory's anti-spam article
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