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Sending Email The Attorney General of Texas and Microsoft have each filed
separate law suits against a University of Texas student and his
partner who allegedly operated the world's fourth largest email
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Reading Email Jan 15, 2005 (AXcess News) Houston - The Attorney General of
Texas and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) have each filed separate law
suits against a University of Texas student and his partner who
allegedly operated the world's fourth largest email spam
business.Texas attorney general
Greg Abbott was successful in nailing two of the world's biggest
spammers this week in what could be considered one of the
biggest hauls in online fraud by authorities since the
government passed the Can-Spam Act.
For the past year I have been using a program called "Boxtrapper". Until this time I had been relying on various spam filters that used keywords or other factors to determine if an email was spam. The success rate for this type of filtering varied as spammers eventually found ways around the "formula" being used by the filter. For example, the word "Valium" may be flagged as a spam indicator while the misspelled version, "Va Lium", would get by unnoticed. This is just one of many examples of how spammers manipulate words to beat filtering. The biggest problem is when spammers "spoof" the header information in an email so it's nearly impossible to trace who sent the message. I have even seen instances of people receiving spam emails that appear to have come from themselves!
Storing Email University of Texas student, 22-year-old Ryan Pitylak and his
partner, 40-year-old Mark Trotter, were the operators behind two
seedy LLCs and a corporation that pushed unsolicited email on
millions of people.The spammers operated under Leadplex LLC,
Leadplex Inc. and PayPerAction LLC which have been conning
recipients of their deceptively worded e-mail into opening
them.
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Email Software In a separate law suit in Seattle, Microsoft has joined the
Texas attorney general's office in suing the two spammers for
sending unsolicited email to millions of MSN users.
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- It seems likely that spammers will continue developing graphical spam, even though there is little reason to see this as a particularly promising route for spammers.
Antispam Software The two spammers were pitching people on mortgage financing and
other misleading offers. The AG's office in Texas said the duo were
not licensed in that state to offer mortgage financing and that
these spammers were selling those leads, in some cases, for as much
as $28 a piece.AdvertisementAccording to the Texas AGs office, the
two are being charged with violating both the federal Can-Spam Act
as well as the Texas Electronic Mail and Solicitation Act, which
allows for penalties of up to $10 per unlawful e-mail or $25,000
per day, and the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act, which
authorizes penalties of up to $20,000 per violation. Under the
federal Act the two spammers face penalties of $250 per violation,
up to $2 million.
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Fight Spam In Microsoft's suit, the software giant is seeking damages of
$1,000 per email the spammers sent to MSN users. Microsoft filed
its lawsuit in federal court in Seattle. The Texas spammers' suit
marks the 89th such legal action the Redmond-based software company
has filed.
Stoping Spam Through its unsolicited email trap, Microsoft has presented over
20,000 unsolicited emails the two Texas spammers sent to MSN users
as evidence to the federal court there is Seattle.
Block Spam A spokesperson for Microsoft said, "Such actions have become
very vital for the company as these spammers have been affecting
the economics of our business. Microsoft had to invest more on
additional equipment, technology and people to handle spam. In
contrast, for the spammers business costs little yet fetches
handsome profits."Lin Hughes, attorney for Pitylak and Trotter,
said her clients have worked with her office to adhere to the
CAN-SPAM law that took effect Jan. 1, 2004."We believe he is in
complete compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act," Hughes said. "We don't
think the (attorney general) has a case".
Spam Emails The Texas attorney general's office filed its lawsuit Thursday.
Microsoft filed its suit Friday. The Texas lawsuit marks the first
such case filed by the attorney general's office there.
Email Account Texas attorney general Abbott commented on the case Thursday,
saying, "We want to make it clear that these defendants we are
suing today and any other illegal spammers in the state of Texas
can't hide behind a computer screen any longer."
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