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Why the spam industry has moved offshore

October 01, 2008

A U.S. district court yesterday applied Iowa's anti-spam law to an Arizona couple that ran a spamming service. And did they ever apply it:

IT IS ORDERED that judgment in the amount of Two Hundred Thirty Six Million Four Hundred Eighty Thousand Six Hundred Sixty Dollars ($236,480,660.00) shall be entered in favor of the plaintiff and against defendants Henry Perez and Suzanne Bartok, jointly and severally, on Kramer’s Iowa Code Chapter 714E claim.

The Iowa law has a $10 per spam penalty. It does not provide for staking spammers on a nest of fire ants, but only because Iowa has no fire ants.

Cite: Kramer v. Perez, USDC-SD Iowa, no. 3:04cv0153

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