Yahoo files suit against 'lottery' spammers

Comment #5

LckyLary — Sat, 31 May 2008 02:49:03 GMT

I should just stick to the Nigerian Lottery.. that one seems pretty easy to win! Or how about the Zimbabwe Lottery, one ticket costs $10 million, the same as the jackpot

Comment #4

MeFirstYouLast — Thu, 29 May 2008 18:36:09 GMT

Isn't Yahoo the company that, for profit, sold the names and addresses of dissidents to the Communist Chinese government, so they could easily be rounded up and placed in prison? Why doesn't Yahoo send the problem IP addresses to Communist Chinese and let them remove the problem? Thus freeing up our courts

Comment #3

Stack47 — Tue, 27 May 2008 21:29:15 GMT

Yahoo didn't try to stop them when they sent emails to Yahoo addresses saying people had won the Australian, UK, South Africa, or any other lotteries they could use to make it look official. It wasn't until the emails said that Yahoo was running the lottery when Yahoo finally decided to do something about it.

I had an email saying I won a secondary prize in a joint Yahoo-Microsoft lottery sponsored by Jerry Yang and Bill Gates.

Comment #2

MeFirstYouLast — Tue, 27 May 2008 19:25:31 GMT

If life was a television show, they could find the criminals through an IP search, try them, and sent them off to jail, all within 42 minutes! All we need is sponsors and we could eliminate all crime. Just like on Law and Order, give up all the freedoms of the Constitution, and the police will solve every crime known to man Fight the police and it turns into a two part episode! Bless the sheep

Comment #1

DC81 — Tue, 27 May 2008 16:27:41 GMT

I've received these and they go straight to my trash bin. Too bad suing isn't really going to do all that much to stop it, even if they can track the IP addresses of the senders back to the source.

Yahoo files suit against 'lottery' spammers

Lottery Post — Tue, 27 May 2008 14:33:00 GMT

Yahoo Inc. said Tuesday it filed a lawsuit against Yahoo Lottery spammers.

The Sunnyvale-based company said the spammers send out e-mail messages trying to make people believe they've won a lottery or prize offered by Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO).

The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in New York City under the Federal Trademark Act, the Federal CAN-SPAM Act and related state laws.

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