AV firm snares spammers with honey pot programmeLaunches $1 billion law caseBy Nick Farrell: Friday 27 April 2007, 15:44Click here to find out more!A UTAH based anti-spam company has filed a $1 billion lawsuit on behalf of 20,000 Internet users who helped it launch a honey pot programme to snare spammers.Unspam Technologies provided its customers with a software tool that sets up Web pages, called Honey Pots. These provided fake email addresses to the spammers which were used by investigators to track both the harvesters and the spammers who use them.Project Honey Pot gathered data for some time and now Unspam thinks it has enough to start the tricky legal proceedings under the CAN-SPAM Act.The group is going to court to subpoena records from the ISPs used by suspected harvesters and spammers.While many believe that the spammers come from China or Russia, Unspam said that a huge chuck of them are in the US. Most of the billion will go in legal fees.
