Spammer offers new service


Spammer turns court order into money-making opportunity.

Wily email marketer/spammer (depending on your viewpoint) David Linhardt, famed for suing UK spam-fighting organization

Spamhaus

, has attempted to turn the court order he was awarded against the organization into a money-making opportunity, according to spam-watchers.

In September 2006 an Illinois court forbade

Spamhaus

from listing Linhardt’s company,

e360 Insight

, and any of its affiliates as spammers. Now, Linhardt is offering a service to companies blacklisted on the

Spamhaus Block List

, in which he will attempt to get them removed from the list by claiming they are affiliates of

e360

.

The first customer appears to have been online marketing firm

Virtumundo

. In a letter to

Spamhaus

last month,

e360

‘s lawyer advised that ‘effective immediately,

Virtumundo

is a customer of and doing business with

e360

‘. The letter went on to demand that

Spamhaus

remove a blocklisting in accordance with the injunction.

Spamhaus

has refused to lift the blocklisting, stating that, as far as it is concerned, ‘customers who form nothing more than a contractual relationship with

e360

after the Court’s injunction order was entered are not within the scope of that order’.

Linhardt has been using sponsored

Google

links to advertise his services.

Posted on 01 July 2007 by

Virus Bulletin


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