Spammer offers new service
Spammer turns court order into money-making opportunity.
Wily email marketer/spammer (depending on your viewpoint) David Linhardt,
famed for suing UK spam-fighting organization Spamhaus, has attempted to
turn the court order he was awarded against the organization into a
money-making opportunity, according to spam-watchers.
In September 2006 an Illinois court forbade Spamhaus from listing
Linhardt's company, e360 Insight, and any of its affiliates as spammers.
Now, Linhardt is offering a service to companies blacklisted on the
Spamhaus Block List, in which he will attempt to get them removed from the
list by claiming they are affiliates of e360.
The first customer appears to have been online marketing firm Virtumundo.
In a letter to Spamhaus last month, e360's lawyer advised that 'effective
immediately, Virtumundo is a customer of and doing business with e360'. The
letter went on to demand that Spamhaus remove a blocklisting in accordance
with the injunction. Spamhaus has refused to lift the blocklisting, stating
that, as far as it is concerned, 'customers who form nothing more than a
contractual relationship with e360 after the Court's injunction order was
entered are not within the scope of that order'.
Linhardt has been using sponsored Google links to advertise his services.
01 July 2007
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