Last week Aunty reported that California Attorney General Bill Lockyer’s office, through Deputy Attorney General Ian Sweedler, had teamed up with the FTC to nail spammers Rick Yang and Peonie Pui Ting Chen, operating out of Los Angeles as Optin Global, Inc. and Vision Media Limited Corp..

At the end of last week the California court granted Sweedler and FTC’s request for a TRO (temporary restraining order) against Yang and Chen, freezing all of their assets, and ordering them to stop spewing their spam until the Court can take a look at the issues.

Interestingly, it was not only Deputy Attorney General Ian Sweedler’s dogged determination and white-hot hatred of spam which lead to the bust, but his love of Douglas Adams’…

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