Not to be left out of lawsuits being launched by rivals AOL and Amazon, Microsoft has announced that after a six-month investigation and collaboration with New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, it has filed parallel lawsuits against a New York spamming ring accused of sending billions of “illegal and deceptive e-mail messages.” Microsoft and Spitzer said they are suing Synergy6 and Scott Richter, who has been dubbed the world’s third largest spammer by spamhaus.org.
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Microsoft Sues Spammers, Details Tactics
Posted by: Jay Lyman December 22, 2003 02:15 PMNot to be left out of lawsuits being launched by rivals AOL and Amazon, Microsoft has announced that after a six-month investigation and collaboration with New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, it has filed parallel lawsuits against a New York spamming ring accused of sending billions of “illegal and deceptive e-mail messages.” Microsoft and Spitzer said they are suing Synergy6 and Scott Richter, who has been dubbed the world’s third largest spammer by spamhaus.org.