New York Attorney General Elliot Spitzer and Microsoft Corp. plan to file civil suits today charging one of the nation's most prominent e-mail marketers with fraud stemming from sending unsolicited commercial e-mail, commonly known as spam, according to several people involved in the cases.
The suits are against three companies, including OptInRealBig, which is run by Scott Richter, widely identified as a major source of bulk e-mail who has been an outspoken defender of his marketing practices. Richter said yesterday that he had been notified by the state Attorney General's Office and by Microsoft that suits were imminent. He said that the accusations were baseless.
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