FC: Spammer manages to extract $7,000 from victim in court

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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From: "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <suresh () hserus net>
To: <declan () well com>
Subject: Fw: [silk] spammer wins legal fees from victim
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 20:50:40 +0800

The spammer who managed to win court costs / legal fees is Dan Amato /
SDILabs, who has been shilling "growth medicine" and such for quite a few
years.

Searching groups.google.com for SDI+Labs+Spam will produce a ton of info.

    -srs

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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/134511084_spam11m.html

   By Peter Lewis
   Seattle Times consumer-affairs reporter

   A Seattle man who has been actively pursuing spammers in King County
   District Court has been hit with a nearly $7,000 judgment to cover a
   spammer's attorney fees, stunning the man and his lawyers.

   It may be the first and heaviest financial setback for the band of
   Puget Sound area spamfighters who have taken matters into their own
   hands by using Washington state's anti-spam law to seek redress
   against junk e-mailers. It is also a sign that some spammers are
   deciding to fight back.

   The Florida-based spammer that Joel Hodgell went after is well known
   to anti-spam activists. Hodgell sued Daniel Amato and his business,
   Samson Distributing, also known as SDI Labs, in King County District
   Court's small-claims division in Seattle. Also named as a defendant
   was Amato's father, George Amato, who apparently is Samson's
   registered agent.

   [...]

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