Scott Richter: Spamming Scum, or Scummy Spammer?

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050809/ap_on_hi_te/spam_lawsuit

A man once accused of being one of the world's top three spammers has agreed to pay $7 million in a settlement with Microsoft Corp., the software maker announced Tuesday.

I love seeing spammers getting slapped...though sadly, it sounds like he's avoiding bankruptcy and will be staying in business. He's made a deal that will salvage his business, I gather, but is still mightily inconvenienced and will be restricted from spamming for a while.

"Spam traps" set by Microsoft the previous May and June netted 8,000 messages containing 40,000 fraudulent statements, Spitzer said at the time, describing Richter as one of the three biggest spammers in the world.

Well, math. was never my best subject, but I make that as averaging about 5 fraudulent statements per message. That's spam for you.