IP: Re: Wireless spam

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 14:52:52 -0700
> From: Rodney Joffe <rjoffe () centergate com>
>
>
>
> David Farber wrote:
> > > From: "Alan A. Reiter" <reiter () wirelessinternet com>
>
> > > CNET's news.com (http://www.news.com) today reports there's a class action
> > > suit against AT&T Wireless because of wireless spam in Phoenix.
>
> Hello Dave,
>
> Alan has misunderstood/misquoted the article.
>
> We're doing the ground work for a class-action suit against the Mortgage
> company, *nor* AT&T.
>
> As an update, we've identified at least 170,000 Phoenix cellphone
> numbers that appear to have received the spam. And they cover the
> spectrum, including AT&T, Verizon, US West/QWEST, Nextlink, and
> Voicestream.
>
> As a result of the NPR spot I did this morning, I have been contacted by
> two Colorado residents who received the spam from the same company
> today. so the problem is not spreading.
>
> It is rather ironic that email spam first got established out of Phoenix
> in 1994 when local immigration attorneys Canter and Segal started
> spamming usenet. Now it looks like Phoenix gets a second black eye with
> the first widespread use of cellphone spam.
>
> --
> Rodney Joffe
> CenterGate Research Group, LLC.
> http://www.centergate.com
> "Technology so advanced, even we don't understand it!"(SM)



For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/