Microsoft To Spammer: That’ll Be $7.4 Million, Please.
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Microsoft has won a $7.4 million judgement against a Tuscon, Arizona spammer.
Glenn Hannifin, the ‘proprietor’ of U Save Depot, was accused by Microsoft of sending millions of pieces of spam hawking everything from software to leather jackets. The software offered included copies of Microsoft Office, discounted to a fraction of its actual value, giving rise to the probability that the software was pirated.
According to the Microsoft lawsuit, in addition to sending millions of pieces of unwanted e-mail to users of its Hotmail service, Hannifan also…
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