Earthlink to receive $11 Million from Nevada mass-spammer

A Nevada bulk email firm has been ordered to pay Earthlink $11m for spamming the ISP’s customers. Earthlink won the judgment in a CAN-SPAM suit filed in a federal court in Atlanta against KSTM LLC. Time for a CANned quote from Larry Slovensky, Assistant General Counsel for EarthLink: “This judgment should be fair warning that if you spam, we will sue.” Go get ’em, guys!

Well, I didn’t have to wait too long for another owned spammer story. Still, even as crazy as $11M sounds… it’s a wonder how much this actually hurts the spammers. Would be interesting to look inside those pocketbooks.