On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:56:02 +0000, judith
wrote:
>On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:34:44 +0000, Mike wrote:
>
>>I've received unsolicited commercial email today from a marketing
>>company called Rupiz Media Ltd, trading as ePurpleMedia
>>(www.epurplemedia.co.uk) on behalf of a loan company called
>>Shapespeare Finance (www.shakespearefinance.co.uk). Both domains are
>>registered to the same address in Watford.
>>
>>This spam was sent to a private email address. I have never had any
>>commercial relationship with either company, so the act of sending the
>>email appears to be a criminal offence under Section 22 of the Privacy
>>and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003
>>(http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2003/20032426.htm).
>
>
>Spammers have been taken to court by individuals in the past:
>
>http://www.scotchspam.org.uk/
>
>go for it.
I hadn't thought of suing them for damages - that's an interesting
idea. There's no doubt that spammers generally cost the Internet
community billions of pounds/dollars in transit, defence and filtering
costs and I've probably spent 100 hours or so in developing defences
for my own little mail server, which despite being small attracts
several thousands of spam-delivery attempts every day.
Further investigation shows that this particular spam was sent on
behalf of Shakespeare Finance Ltd by a mail server owned by MSols Ltd
and with click-through response measurement and "unsubscription
requests" handled by Rupiz Media Ltd. There's evidence that all these
companies have common ownership and that Shakespeare Finance pays 50
pounds per "secured homeowner lead". I intend to cause them
considerable grief through complaints to the various regulators.
Mike.
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