Spam King gets only $40,000 fine
Notorious spammer Scott Richter has been slapped with a $40,000 fine while NY State
initially sought a $20 million judgement against him. $40,000 fine and $10,000 in investative costs doesn't sound as a big deal, at least to him. NY State initially wanted a $20 million judgement against Richter but it has settled for peanuts. He wasn't even forced into admitting he had done anything wrong.
Richter allegedly used a network of 500 compromised computers to send millions of junk email to Hotmail users. He, of course, denies and such wrongdoing.
