PW Marketing ordered to pay $2M fine

California Attorney General Bill Lockyer claimed victory in the state's first antispam lawsuit late last week, after a court ordered PW Marketing LLC and its owners to pay a $2 million fine for violating California laws against sending unsolicited commercial e-mail.

Spam costs U.S. businesses nearly $9 billion a year in lost productivity and screening expenses, and accounts for roughly 40% of all e-mail, Lockyer said in a statement released Friday. The attorney general added that his office would continue to enforce the laws against the "high tech pollutant." Read Article >> Posted by: DTB at 9:13 PM  |  Permalink