Summer Spam Suits Show Some Success

The report summarizes major civil judgments against spammers: Microsoft obtained a £45,000 award against an individual who used Hotmail to send pornographic spam, and EarthLink won a £5.8m judgment under CAN-SPAM against a Nevada spamming company for sending millions of unsolicited mortgage emails. It highlights that private litigation is currently a primary deterrent as regulatory bodies have limited reach and that spam remains a persistent legal and operational nuisance rather than a technically sophisticated cyber threat.