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MS wins $4m from spammer scammmer | |
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| Time: 11:54 EST/16:54 GMT | News Source: The Register | Posted By: Byron Hinson | ||
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Microsoft has won a $3.95m judgement against a California man who used a combination of cybersquatting and spamming tactics to scare vulnerable users into downloading adware. Daniel Khoshnood of Canoga Park, California, ran a pair of spam campaigns last year to coax consumers into running a toolbarwhich claimed to automatically download Microsoft's latest security patches from a site called "Windowsupdatenow.com". In reality, the toolbar loaded a utility called called BrowserAid/QuickLaunch which bombarded users with random, unrequested pop-up ads. | ||
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| #1 By 8556 (12.217.111.74) at 7/16/2004 5:33:31 PM |
| The spam scammer guy is lower than scum. $3.95 million isn't enough of a punishment. How about a criminal instead of a civil trial? Better yet, ship the scum to Saudi Arabia for a trial. Let's see if he can keep his head on straight after that. |
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