Microsoft Sues over Lewd Spam
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In seven newly filed lawsuits, Microsoft alleges the purveyors of unsolicited obscene e-mail messages violated federal restrictions.
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Microsoft Corp. filed nine new lawsuits  against spammers who send unsolicited e-mail, including an  e-mail marketing Web hosting company, the world's largest  software maker said on Thursday
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Microsoft has filed its first lawsuits over allegedly counterfeit and illicit certificates of authenticity, the labels attached to software packages and computers to verify the legitimacy of the programs inside.
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Microsoft, AOL, EarthLink and Yahoo filed three new lawsuits to stop the spread of unsolicited e-mail.
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Microsoft, America Online (AOL), Yahoo and Earthlink have filed a handful of lawsuits against spammers, allegedly targeting some of the world&#39;s largest unsolicited mail offenders.
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Fined Â£45,000 for porn spam scam Microsoft has won what it described as the largest reported civil award against a spammer in Europe. The software giant says it won a court order requiring spammer Paul Fox to pay Â£45,000.â¦
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Software giant Microsoft Corp. developed policies to destroy internal e-mails and other documents crucial to ongoing lawsuits, according to a motion filed by a California software company.
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Microsoft has filed seven more lawsuits against spammers, this time targeting those who violate the &quot;brown-paper wrapper&quot; provision of the CAN-SPAM law, which sets rules for sexually oriented e-mail solicitations.
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The software giant, Microsoft, has filed lawsuits against seven companies for violating the CAN-SPAM &quot;Brown Paper Wrapper&quot; rule.
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DECEMBER 02, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Microsoft Corp. is again using the courts to pursue individuals allegedly responsible for spam e-mail campaigns, this time going after those who send out unsolicited and sexually explicit e-mail.
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Microsoft has fired another broadside against the spammers with nine new lawsuits against companies that send illegal unsolicited email to Hotmail accounts.
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Microsoft and Amazon.com have joined forces against perpetrators of phishing scams, filing a lawsuit against a Canadian company that they say ran a spamming campaign using Microsoft&#39;s Hotmail services and forging Amazon&#39;s name.
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(InfoWorld) - Microsoft Corp. has initiated 97 lawsuits throughout Europe and the Middle East during its eight-month investigation into fraudulent Web pages, with another 32 criminal complaints filed in cooperation with local authorities, the company said Wednesday. All of the cases are against individuals who attempted to capture the log-in and password details of users by constructing fraudulent Hotmail and MSN.com sign-in pages, said Jean-Christophe Le Toquin, a Microsoft attorney. A total of 253 sites were investigated, he said. Microsoft'sÂ Global Phishing Enforcement program, started in March, aims to curtail fake Web sites built by criminals trying to obtain financial information or passwords by tricking users, so-called âphishing.â The company uses its technology to crawl the Internet to find Web pages that look suspicious, Le Toquin said. Once a phishing site has been identified, Microsoft either files a criminal complaint or forwards the information to prosecutors, depending on the countryâs legal requirements, Le Toquin said. By country, Turkey led the pack with 50 criminal complaints, followed by 28 in Germany and 11 in France. Legal actions were also filed in the United Arab Emirates, Italy, Morocco, the Netherlands and the U.K. Microsoft has settled with four phishers, all 16- to 20-year-old males, in France and Norway, Le Toquin said. Each of those pursued in France paid Microsoft â¬2,000 (US$2,564), a fine the company felt is in proportion to their actions, he said. Many of the fake sites were created by the phishers to trick their peers into divulging their log-in credentials, Le Toquin said. The phishers would try to lure their friends to the fake pages through links sent by instant messaging programs, he said. The purpose was to âtake control of the account of the victim,â Le Toquin said. Microsoft said it will continue its investigation, particularly focusing on phishing sites connected with more sophisticated hacking, Le Toquin said. Â
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Said the accused violated the &quot;CAN-SPAM&quot; federal law requiring e-mail containing sexually explicit images to be clearly identified.
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Microsoft filed the seven lawsuits in Washington State Superior Court in King County against unidentified &quot;John Doe&quot; defendants.
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Can seek compensation, too Microsoft has stopped a man from selling lists of email addresses which were being used for spam. A court has granted a summary judgment against Paul Martin McDonald, stopping him from selling the lists.â¦
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Microsoft filed nine lawsuits against individuals and companies alleged to be involved in the distribution of spam, the company says.