Recently a US $1b lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., which is said to be opening up an innovative front to combat spam. Not only the spammers, but those who gather e-mail addresses for spammers, have also been brought within the reach of the latest lawsuit. One of the biggest of its type, the lawsuit is being filed from Project Honey Pot members in more than hundred nations. Project Honey Pot is a service offered by Park City-Utah-enabled anti-spam company Unspam Technologies Inc.
A note posted on the Project Honey Pot Web site was reported to have said,
If you’ve harvested e-mail addresses or sent spam in the last two years, chances are you’re on our radar screen and we’re coming after you. This lawsuit is unique because we believe it is the first major case in the United States to bring a claim against spammers for harvesting e-mail addresses,” the note said. “While this practice has been a penalty enhancement under the CAN-SPAM Act since it was passed, in most cases the data was not available in order to prove an address was harvested.
The case is being tackled by Jon Praed, a founding associate of the Washington D.C-located Internet Law Group, which has symbolized and succeeded in anti-spam lawsuits for clients like Verizon Online and AOL formerly.
