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Microsoft, New York file anti-spam suits

NEW YORK, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- software giant Microsoft and the state of New York Thursday filed six lawsuits in the war against spam, CNET News.com reported.

Synergy6, an e-mail marketing company based in New York, and Scott Richter, a well-known spammer and president of OptInRealBig.com, are among the defendants named in the suits.

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The suits allege Richter and accomplices across the nation engaged in a spam campaign that employed such techniques as forged sender names, false subject lines, fake server names, inaccurate and misrepresented sender addresses or obscured transmission paths.

Microsoft filed five other lawsuits against spammers who allegedly used the same transmission path in New York that originally led investigators to Richter and the spam network.

The announcement of the lawsuits comes a week after Virginia's attorney general issued the first felony indictment under that state's anti-spam law and just days after President Bush signed an anti-spam law.

In June, Microsoft filed 15 lawsuits in the United States and Britain against spammers, claiming they were responsible for flooding its MSN Internet service with more than 2 billion unsolicited e-mail messages.

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