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Spam rewards, but no longer for the spammers. An Internet Service Provider (ISP) in the American Iowa gets more than 1 billion dollar damageses assigned in a lawsuit that it had tightened against spammers. The internetprovider CIS Internet Services summoned four year ago 300 spammers for the court, after its servers got to process on certain moment gladly 10 million advertising message per day.

The courts was receptive for the complaints and knew the business a damages of more than 1 billion dollar to. Right Charles R. Wool condemned AMP Dollar Savings until 720 million dollars damages, while Cash Link Systems a bill of 360 million dollars got presented. Someone else spamcompany, TEI Marketing Group, came there at the same time 140,000 dollars yet cheaply from.

“The pronunciation is a victory for all e-mailusers that daily obscene and fraudulent e-mails in their inbox get”, according to Robert Peddler, owner of CIS Internet Services. Or the business it also actively succeeds round to smooth 1 billion dollar on, is however the question. The lawyers of Peddler is not so optimistic about the collecting of the sum: “I hope that we at least the expenses of the lawsuit compensated get”.

The state Iowa has a particular strict spamwetgeving. The law foresees in a damages until 10 dollars per spammessage. Also other American states step fast on against the sending of unsollicited and unwanted e-mail. This makes the demanding of towering damageses possible.

A firm, that AOL-customers steered almost a billion reclamemails about pornsites, must the internetprovider two year ago 7 million dollar pay. In 2003, Earthlink received, the on two after largest internetprovider in the United States, a damages of 16 million dollars. That was at that time one of the most compensations ever in an affair around unwanted mails. And in July of this year got Microsoft almost 4 million dollars assigned after the software giant a hardleerse spammer had accused.,.

In Europe are the damageses what bescheidener. In January of 2004 condemned a Danish court a local telecomfirma till a fine of 54,000 Euros for the sending of 1,500 unwanted e-mails. That has been converted nevertheless 36 Euros per spammessage.