Spammers Rapped By California Court

Via TechWeb News:

A California Company had an injunction issued against them following accusations of sending e-mail spam for mortgage companies and other products including college degrees and prescription drugs. The amount of emails is reportedly in the millions.

The California attorney general Bill Lockyer along with the FTC said the company had violated the federal CAN-SPAM Act and also California's ati-spam act.

"Since at least Jan. 1, 2004, and continuing to the present (the) defendants have initiated the transmission of hundreds of thousands of commercial e-mail messages," the complaint said.

The company, Vision Media Ltd. Corp., and Optin Glogal, Inc. along with Rick Yang and Peonie Pui, were ordered to immediately stop operations of their spamming companies, then froze the firms' assets.

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