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NEW YORK An alleged spammer must pay $50,000 in penalties and costs to the State of New York as a part of a settlement reached in a 8-month-old lawsuit, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer’s office said yesterday.
The lawsuit, filed by the attorney general last December, accused Scott Richter and his company, OptInRealBig.com, of sending unsolicited e-mails containing deceptive subject lines and falsified headers and routing information. The legal complaint, which also named Richter’s agent and the marketer that hired him as defendants, alleged that the messages were routed illegally through a worldwide network of more than 500 vulnerable computers.
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