Yahoo to play the Spammer Lottery!
On May 16, 2008, Yahoo decided to play the Spammer lotto by suing a whole bunch of spammers that have been using their name in online lottery scams. The article over at Wired.com points out that Yahoo didn’t decide to sue until MySpace.com won a huge award from spammers:
The one thing that strikes us as a little curious here is the timing of the lawsuit. These scams have been around almost as long as the Internet — why would Yahoo finally decide to sue now? It probably has something to do with a $234 million judgment for MySpace in a case against “spam king” Sanford Wallace. The judgment, believed to be the largest anti-spam award, came shortly before Yahoo filed its complaint on May 16.
It will be interesting to see if this goes anywhere, or is just another waste of time in the war on spamming.