Receive Spam, Make Money!

Bud Dwyer writes "Wired is running the heartening story of Bennett Haselton, who was awarded $2000 from spammers under Washington state's anti-spam law. From the article: 'Spam fighters hope that if enough individuals take spammers to court, it could eventually drive the industry out of business. And, some savvy individuals could make some easy money along the way, and with a clear conscience, too.'"

So, how long..

[kafka93]

.. until I start receiving a load of "received spam-mail? Make money NOW!" messages in my inbox?

Now I'm Curious...

[ackthpt]

I see these people winning in small claims courts against defendants in other states. How do they go about collecting the judgement, particularly if the out of state person/company just blows it off?

Possible new Spam trend:

From: [e-mail]
To: (undisclosed recipients)
Subject: Make Big Money Suing Spammers!

Hi, Friend! Are you bothered by Spam clogging up your mailbox, hard drive and embarrassing you by it's content? Worry no more!

For $25 we'll show you how to get rich by suing spammers! Send payment to:

O. B. Laden
Cave #1248
Tora Bora
Afghanistan

Act now, before it's too late!

Re:It's about time

[4444444]

we need the ability to punish spammers economically.

You can punish them just goto http://www.goto.com and do search fro "bulk email" every limk you click will cost tehm several dollars last itme I looked it was about $8 per click

spam back

[diesel_jackass]

I've tried spamming back people who spam me, with thousands of emails, and random subject and bodies. That makes me feel good. It is a hog to run on my computer though.

Now i just send them a bill with PayPal. I haven't had any responses yet, but i think they definitely owe me something for wasting my time, bandwidth, and storage. Maybe some lame spammer will cave and pay me the $30 that i billed them

So *that's* what it meant...

[Jeremi]

when it said "MAKE MONEY FAST" :^)

Oh come on!

[Gannoc]

The title of this article should have been "MAKE MONEY FAST!!!!"

A golden humor opportunity thrown away.

Re:Well..

[Anonymous Coward]

I used to have a cool sig but people replied to it more than they did my comments.

What was it? Now I'm curious!!

Re:Radio Shack (not quite spam)

[ryanvm]

Anyways, recently, Radio shack posted my home phone number as one of their local stores. I emailed them a couple weeks to change it and got no response.

You need to tell Radio Shack that you're going to start playing practical jokes on their potential customers - that will get their attention.

When you get a call for Radio Shack, just bullshit the caller and act like you don't know anything about electronics. Oh wait - that won't work, that's what happens when you call the real Radio Shack.