Microsoft Corp. today praised California Attorney General Bill Lockyer and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for their filing of a joint lawsuit on Tuesday against defendants allegedly responsible for initiating the transmission of millions of commercial e-mail messages since Jan. 1, 2004.
The state of California and the FTC brought the lawsuit against four defendants in federal court in San Francisco. Microsoft's Internet Safety Enforcement Team began investigating several of the defendants more than a year ago, and directly supported the lawsuit by providing evidence of illegal spam e-mails and other investigative materials to the Consumer Law Section of the State of California Office of the Attorney General, as well as by submitting an affidavit detailing MSN® Hotmail® policies to the FTC.
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