Lawsuit won against UK spammer.
Microsoft
has won a lawsuit against a spammer based in the UK.
Microsoft
launched legal proceedings against 37-year-old Paul Martin McDonald after receiving numerous complaints from its
Hotmail
customers. McDonald’s company
Bizads
sold lists of email addresses of people it claimed had subscribed to receive information about business oportunities via email. However, according to
Microsoft
the lists included the email addresses of a large number of its
Hotmail
customers who had not opted in or subscribed to any such service.
Microsoft
argued that McDonald’s activity breached the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations and that it was suffering loss and damage to the goodwill it had as operator of
Hotmail
. McDonald was issued with a court order banning him from instigating the transmission of spam emails. He may also be ordered to pay compensation to
Microsoft
.
Posted on 03 January 2007 by
Virus Bulletin
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