Man quits job, makes living suing e-mail spammers

[Geee]

NewsSun:

SAN FRANCISCO — Daniel Balsam hates spam. Most everybody does, of course. But he has acted on his hate as few have, going far beyond simply hitting the delete button. He sues them.

Eight years ago, Balsam was working as a marketer when he received one too many e-mail pitches to enlarge his breasts.

Enraged, he launched a Web site called Danhatesspam.com, quit a career in marketing to go to law school and is making a decent living suing companies who flood his e-mail inboxes with offers of cheap drugs, free sex and unbelievable vacations.

“I feel like I’m doing a little bit of good cleaning up the Internet,” Balsam said.

From San Francisco Superior Court small claims court to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Balsam, based in San Francisco, has filed many lawsuits, including dozens before he graduated law school in 2008, against e-mail marketers he says violate anti-spamming laws.

His many victories are mere rain drops in the ocean considering that Cisco Systems Inc. estimates that there are 200 billion spam messages circulating a day, accounting for 90 percent of all e-mail.

[Rokke]

"Eight years ago, Balsam was working as a marketer when he received one too many e-mail pitches to enlarge his breasts."

 

Our Yahoo account does a pretty good job of filtering that kind of spam out. Of course, it generally isn't about enlarging breasts. More typically it involves other parts of human anatomy. You just have to wonder if they get any response to that kind of crap at all.

[Pepper]

"Eight years ago, Balsam was working as a marketer when he received one too many e-mail pitches to enlarge his breasts."

 

Our Yahoo account does a pretty good job of filtering that kind of spam out. Of course, it generally isn't about enlarging breasts. More typically it involves other parts of human anatomy. You just have to wonder if they get any response to that kind of crap at all.

 

 

More typically it involves other parts of human anatomy.

 

 

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