Scotsman wins Â£1,300 settlement against spammer
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Website shows how you can hit back, too An Edinburgh man has obtained damages of more than Â£1,300 from British-based spammer.â¦
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AOL helped build a case that led to the conviction of one of the world&#39;s most prolific spammers, Jeremy Jaynes. A state jury in Virginia has recommended a nine-year prison term in the nation&#39;s first felony trial of spam purveyors.
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FTC dishes out $1m penalty A social networking website has agreed to pay a $1m fine to settle with authorities over allegations that it collected, used and disclosed personal details of children under 13.â¦
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A spammer accused of sending unsolicited mail to 1.2 million AOL subscribers pleaded guilty and faces potentially substantial fines and jail time, but one observer said the victory was at best a moral one for AOL.
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James Hardie Industries NV underfunded a trust to compensate asbestos victims by at least A$1.5 billion ($1.1 billion) and misled investors when it said it had set aside enough money
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A British bookmaker offered a one million pound ($2 million) reward on Monday to anyone who can prove that Scotland's legendary Loch Ness monster does actually exist.
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By ANNIE FLANZRAICH SEATTLE - A man accused of defrauding people through tens of millions of spam e-mail messages sent around the world was denied bail Wednesday. U.S. Magistrate Judge James P.
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A federal judge has awarded an Internet service provider more than &#36;1 billion in what is believed to be the largest judgment ever against spammers.
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Lloyds TSB wins a second county court case against a customer trying to reclaim overdraft charges.
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MARSH &amp; MCLENNAN, the insurance broker at the centre of a bid-rigging and fee-fixing scandal, admitted that it had received more than $1.
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Australian building products group, James Hardie, agrees to pay $1.1bn to sufferers of asbestos-related diseases.
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Flogs software on eBay A British man who was selling Â£12,000 software for Â£12 on eBay faces up to 10 years in prison. He pleaded guilty to copyright infringement and will be sentenced in February.â¦
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X marks the pest A Dutch spammer who used compromised PCs to spamvertise web sites has been fined â¬75,000 ($97,000) by Opta, the Netherlands telecoms regulatorâ¦
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p2pnet.net News:- Spammer Jeremy Jaynes, aka Gaven Stubberfield, had the distinction of being the first spammer to be charged under Virginia&#39;s antispam law.
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A UK company is ordered to pay out Â£750 in damages for sending spam.
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An investment bank in Estonia, Lohmus Haavel & Viisemann, and a former worker agreed to pay $15 million to settle Securities and Exchange Commission allegations that they had made illegal trades based on information from stolen news releases. The former employee, Oliver Peek, will forfeit $13 million in profit and will pay a $1.35 million fine. The bank will pay a $650,000 penalty, the S.E.C. said. They neither admitted nor denied wrongdoing in agreeing to the sanctions. The S.E.C.âs lawsuit accused Lohmus Haavel, which is based in Tallinn, of using a computer program to retrieve information on more than 200 United States companies from Business Wireâs secure Web site before announcements were made public from January to November 2005.
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Arms campaigners claim a High Court victory over defence firm BAE Systems in a row over a leaked e-mail.