Wireless Span

Verizon Wireless just won a lawsuit against a company who was sending unsolicited text messages to their customers. The owner of the company Specialized Programming and Marketing LLC was forced to pay up to two hundred thousand dollars in damages, and are also prohibited from sending spam messages to Verizon customers. The company sent nearly one hundred thousand of these messages. The messages usually contained content about potentially winning a vacation.

Some spam is harmless other then the additional time and money it requires to read the message. However, some spam is trying to defraud the recipient or may cause computer problems. Also the way in which these spammer's attain our email addresses can be through breaking the law and actually stealing email lists from major companies or from service providers. I think this is a great win for Verizon Wireless but also for all Internet and cell phone carriers, because these spammer's are able to operate at such low costs to themselves, while passing costs onto the recipient of the message and also the carrier who is transporting the message. Usually spammer's are mainly big companies who are trying to market a product or a scheme, and unfortunately big companies usually have money and the means to fight off these lawsuits. However, it should be thought about to attack the individuals sending the spam and working for these companies. That may be a more viable solution to putting an end to spam.