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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