Texas sues major spammers
16 January 2005
Texas has filed a lawsuit against two men believed to be part of the world's largest spam operations.
The state's attorney general Greg Abbott announced that the civil lawsuit had been filed in federal court in Austin against Ryan Samuel Pitylak, a University of Texas student, and Mark Stephen Trotter of California.
Texas is now seeking millions of dollars from the pair, claiming that they are responsible for sending millions of illegal messages on the internet.
The two men are suspected of controlling companies PayPerAction and Leadplex, two companies that bombarded email accounts with spam messages pitching fraudulent services.
"Illegal spam must be stopped," Mr Abbott said at a press conference in Dallas. "Spam is one of the most aggravating and pervasive problems facing consumers today."
Watchdog group SpamHaus.org insists the pair run one of the top five spam operations in the world.
The defendants say the suit is groundless and they plan to defend themselves vigorously.
"Illegal spam must be stopped," Mr Abbott said at a press conference in Dallas. "Spam is one of the most aggravating and pervasive problems facing consumers today."
The federal CAN-SPAM Act, which took effect last year, criminalizes tactics spammers use to spread junk email, such as deceptive subject lines, falsified return addresses and the use of third-party computers to disguise their point of origin.
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