NC Jumps on the Bandwagon
Last Friday, I mentioned that Florida’s Attorney General has sued a spammer as a result of information turned over in during discovery in a suit against a now discredited fuel booster.
Well, now North Carolina has jumped on the bandwagon
A Rowan County man has been sued by the state in its first case against “spam” e-mail, N.C. Attorney General Roy Cooper said Friday.Cooper’s complaint accuses Michael Abbott of Rockwell of violating the nearly two-year-old federal anti-spamming law in pitching a discredited fuel booster to hundreds of people nationwide last year.
The quote of the day belongs to Abbott’s wife, Telka:
Why can’t they pick on murdering people? Michael is an honest person. He would never hoo-doo nobody. Why’d they make a big deal over this?
It turns out that North Carolina officials found out about Abbott’s enterprise the same way that Florida officials did: As a result of their probe into FuelMax and Super FuelMax. This time, though, it appears that Abbott was part of the scheme — he wasn’t spamming solely on behalf of others, he had signed up to sell this stuff himself.
Well, it looks like the hoo-doo that he-doo so well has come turned into a bit of a hoo-ha for him.
MickC @ December 19, 2005