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ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A man who sent billions of junk e-mails hawking online college degrees, sexually explicit Web sites and "generic Viagra" must pay more than $5 million in penalties to America Online, a federal judge ruled.
Christopher William Smith, of Prior Lake, Minn., was considered one of the world's worst spammers, operating under the name Rizler. He is now in jail in Minnesota awaiting trial on criminal charges that he violated federal drug laws while operating an online pharmacy.
On Tuesday U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton issued a summary judgment against Smith ordering him to pay $5.3 million in damages and $287,000 in legal fees to AOL, which filed a civil suit against Smith under the Can-Spam act.
AOL spokesman Nicholas Graham said Smith "was the poster child for the Can-Spam Act," which Congress enacted in 2004 to crack down on unsolicited junk e-mail.
"This is someone we've been pursuing for three years," Graham said. "It's one of the largest judgments we've received."
Hilton issued a summary judgment in favor of Dulles-based AOL after Smith "refused to participate in this case, willfully disregarding ... discovery obligations and failing to comply with multiple court orders," according to the judge's order.
Court records show that Smith's lawyers withdrew from the case several months after it was filed.
In addition to e-mails promoting generic Viagra and pornographic Web sites, Smith also advertised cable TV descramblers and penis enhancement pills.
In an initial response to AOL's lawsuit, Smith's lawyers denied wrongdoing and questioned the constitutionality of the Can-Spam law.
Graham said that AOL has won tens of millions of dollars in judgments against more than 30 spammers under the federal law and a similar Virginia law. |
Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11045645/
huh!! a lot of money! infact free money!How to become a millionare on the internet:
1) Regeister E-mail adresses for your webspace.
2) Collect unsolicited spam
3) File a lawsuit
| ocalhoun wrote: |
How to become a millionare on the internet:
1) Regeister E-mail adresses for your webspace.
2) Collect unsolicited spam
3) File a lawsuit |
Sounds like a cunning plan to me. 
True, I'm working on it now. Once the spam takes up enough space to crash my website's foum I should have a good case.
so,
would you able to catch the spammer ?
and also can this be implimented on a everyone.net 's free email for websites.
| manumiglani wrote: |
so,
would you able to catch the spammer ?
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Good point...
Now hiring: Expert Hacker
Pay: 30% of profits.i can do that for 25% of profits.
Even if it is a bit of a cheap way for AOL to get money you have to be glad to see petty Internet criminals finally realize that crime even on the "ananymous" super-highway still doesn't pay!! Way too many idiots out there wasting their talent and time just to cause an hour of inconvenience for someone else... utterly pointless! 
| Dorsk82 wrote: |
| Even if it is a bit of a cheap way for AOL to get money you have to be glad to see petty Internet criminals finally realize that crime even on the "ananymous" super-highway still doesn't pay!! Way too many idiots out there wasting their talent and time just to cause an hour of inconvenience for someone else... utterly pointless! |
Exactally, I'm glad to see something done about spam. I have noticed less, ie. none, or it recently. I don't get spam anymore.. Maybe I'm just protective of who I give my email to?
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I love your get rich plan roflmao. So... simple... and well, there's just something about it that makes me laugh.
Are your seriously doing it? | ocalhoun wrote: |
How to become a millionare on the internet:
1) Regeister E-mail adresses for your webspace.
2) Collect unsolicited spam
3) File a lawsuit |
THink of the infos on late night tv saying some thing like this
I made millons with just this video 3 simple steps of getting rith on the net It was easy and i only spent little time in cort this video made me money and you could win some to so order now at 1800 i need spamHahaha... Thats pretty frickin crazy, a lot of money...
I wish I could file a lawsuit for like $1,000 
That would buy me an XboX 360...
