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Florida’s $11 Billion Spammer
John Stith
Staff Writer
2006-01-05
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It looks like spamming is finally catching up to people. Robert Kramer was a victim of spammers or more specifically, his ISP, CIS Internet Services was. He's the owner of this business because he claimed James McCalla of Miami spammed 280 million emails to CIS accounts.
Kramer said McCalla did it and U.S. District Judge Charles R. Wolle agreed with him, handing a punishment of fines at $11.2 billion dollars. The punishment also forces McCalla from accessing the Internet for three years.
The thing that has industry watchers scratching their heads is the fine. $11.2 billion is a lot of money. Sci-Tech Today quoted Graham Cluley of Sophos saying, "The amount that this spammer (McCalla) has been fined is quite staggering, and is bound to raise some eyebrows. The size of the fine was determined on the basis of $10 per spam e-mail, but it's a certainty that the fine will never actually be paid."
Kramer's not done though and has already gotten some of the businesses that participated in the spamming. They were worth about $1 billion each. It would seem Kramer's out for a reckoning on this one. Once again, in Sci Tech Today:
However, Kramer said he intends to take the spammers for every penny they have. "I will seek the economic equivalent of the death penalty," he said in a telephone call. "Otherwise, it would have been crazy to have spent all this money to get a judgment."
About the Author:
John is a staff writer for SecurityProNews covering cyber security.
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