Ohio Spammers Hit With $250,000 Judgment
| Title: | Ohio Spammers Hit With $250,000 Judgment (ID: CSD2958) | | Author(s): | Pamela Parker | | Topics: | Spam | | Origin: | Community Contributions (2003) | | Type: | Articles, Papers, and Reports | | Abstract: | A Washington state judge has awarded anti-spam activist Nigel Featherston damages of $250,000 under that state's anti-spam legislation against two notorious spammers in Ohio. Under Washington law, spammers can be fined $500 per message, and Featherston proved that he had received 58,000 e-mails from the defendants, Charles Childs and Linda Lightfoot. Featherston's suit, however, only sought damages of $250,000 rather than the $29 million he could have demanded. Childs and Lightfoot have been the targets of prosecution by the Federal Trade Commission, which accused the pair last year of operating an e-mail pyramid scheme. | | View this resource: | |
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