Spammers Sued For Spamming

Ho hum, right? You hear of spammers getting sued all the time.

But this time it’s different. These spammers aren’t hawking their own stuff.

Florida has sued Rik Rodriguez and North Carolina has sued Michael Abbott for spamming.

Now you might think that these are just more spammers getting sued for selling fraudulent products. But, you would be wrong. This isn’t just another spammer getting sued because he is selling the wrong thing. No, this suit is against the spammer for spamming.

The Federal Trade Commission launched Federal Trade Commission v. International Research and Development Corporation of Nevada, et al. in November of 2004. So far, they have settled with Net Marketing Group, LLC, Diverse Marketing Group, Inc., Diverse Marketing Group, LLC, Floyd J. Tassin, Jr., Marcia Tassin, and Mark C. Ayoub. It was during the course of discovery for the case that several spammers were uncovered. The information was turned over to the attorneys general for the states the spammers lived in and these suits are the result.

These suits are still a rarity, but I think they are also a harbinger of where things are going. These suits follow the money trail to the spammer instead of trying to find the spammer solely from the headers. Even though at least one of the spammers wasn’t actually the one selling anything, he was getting paid to advertise illegally. I think we’re going to find more and more of these lawsuits coming in the future.

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