Verizon Granted Injunction Against Spammer
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Verizon Wireless today announced it was granted a permanent legal injunction against a Rhode Island spammer who sent unsolicited messages to wireless phones.
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The vendor adds to its growing list of spam lawsuits one aimed at a service provider that hosts spammers. By Thomas Claburn. Cheapbulletproof.
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Company wins $84,177 over term violation; U.K. individuals, though, are virtually helpless against spammers, lawyer says.
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Anti-spam activists disagree about whether a $1.08 billion judgment Friday against three spammers in Iowa will discourage others from sending unsolicited bulk e-mail.
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Unlike AT&T, Verizon wonât monitor its network to block unauthorized copying. That would violate customer privacy, it says, and would be expensive too.
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A federal judge has awarded a small Midwestern Internet service provider (ISP) more than $1 billion in what may amount to be the largest single decision ever handed down against spammers.
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In a $1 million settlement, Verizon is reimbursing customers who had their broadband service disconnected.
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Massachusetts Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly declared a victory in the war on unwanted e-mail yesterday, as a Florida spammer agreed to pay $25,000 to settle a state lawsuit alleging violations of a new federal antispam law.
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For many online users, the idea that their Internet provider was particularly aggressive in cracking down on e-mail spam would be welcome news. But some of Verizon's 3 million high-speed Internet customers say the company is bungling the job and hurting their livelihoods.
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In a Feb. 7 story about cellular "spam," The Associated Press erroneously described a list published by the Federal Communications Commission aimed at stopping unwanted commercial e-mail and text messages sent to cell phones. It is a list of domain names to which telemarketers may not send e-mail without permission from cell phone subscribers, not listings of the Web sites that transmit unwanted data.
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Which is nice A Nevada bulk email firm has been ordered to pay Earthlink $11m for spamming the ISP's customers. Earthlink won the judgment in a CAN-SPAM suit filed in a federal court in Atlanta against KSTM LLC. According to Earthlink, this business illegally sent millions of mortgage-touting emails and is now prohibited from:â¦
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Who's blocking all the great e-mail from Europe? Verizon is, and its customers aren't very happy about it. The company says it's only trying to block spam, but the filters aren't working very well. By John Gartner.
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In ordering a New Hampshire man to stop sending spyware that takes over parts of a user&#39;s computer, a federal judge has sent a warning shot at spammers in the United States.
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Dutch authorities have announced that country&#39;s first fines against spammers, including an individual and two companies who sent unsolicited e-mails and mobile telephone text messages.
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Verizon Communications Inc. VZ.N  and Qwest Communications International Inc. Q.N asked a  federal appeals court Tuesday to block temporary rules by the  U.S. Federal Communications Commission forcing the companies to  lease phone lines to rivals for at least another six months.
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A Montgomery County judge has ruled that Maryland's anti-spam law -- one of the first attempts to control junk e-mail advertising -- is unconstitutional because it seeks to regulate commerce outside the state's borders.
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A law firm in Colorado has been fined by federal court after a spam filter intercepted an important court notice.