Project Honey Pot Files $1B+ Lawsuit Against Spammers

[Mr Bob]

Although that's quite a bit of money, it is also quite a bit of spammers. How much damage is this actually going to do? I think this might be more of a scare tactic.

A company representing Internet users in more than 100 countries today filed a lawsuit in Virginia seeking the identity of individuals responsible for harvesting millions of e-mail addresses on behalf of spammers.

The suit was filed in U.S. District Court in Alexandria on behalf of Project Honey Pot, a service of Unspam Technologies LLC, a Utah-based anti-spam company that consults with private companies and government agencies.

The lead attorney on the case, Jon Praed of the Arlington, Va.-based Internet Law Group, has represented America Online and Verizon Online in successful cases against junk e-mailers. Praed said the group hopes to follow the trail from the people doing the harvesting of e-mail addresses to the actual spammers.

"It is clear that the key to stopping spam is identifying those responsible for it, and getting that information into the hands of those capable of doing something about it," he said.

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[FoBoT]

if it works for pirate hunters, maybe it'll work for spam hunters

it is worth a shot