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Old 02-17-2004, 07:36 AM  
SomeCreep
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Originally posted by dj pussy
A US company has been fined £75,000 for spamming punters with porn emails that led to users racking up whopping phone bills.

The spam sent by New York-based BW Telecom contained peak-rate dialler software which disconnected users from their ISP before reconnecting them to a service that charged them £1.50 a minute for Net access.

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only £75,000? I bet they'll make that back in a day or two.
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