A former marketing agent has gone on a crusade fighting the senders of the many emails we all receive offering larger manhoods, sex with supermodels, and gigantic breasts—Daniel Balsam now makes a living suing spammers.
“I feel like I'm doing a little bit of good cleaning up the Internet,” said Balsam.
Eight years ago, Balsam quit his job in marketing to go to law school because he’d had it with the scams in his spam folder. Too many times had he received those emails insisting that the most pleasure of your woman with increase thickness penis! [sic] so Balsam went around the bend a bit and decided he was just going to sue them full-time. He’s racked up over a million dollars in court judgments and lawsuit settlements with companies who produce the piles of electronic exploitation.
But not everybody believes in Balsam’s holy war. In a twist right out of the most saucy courtroom drama, Balsam’s has a nemesis—Bennet Kelley, a defense lawyer among the rough-and-tumble litigation niche that surrounds spam.
“There is nothing wrong per se with being an anti-spam crusader,” Kelley said. “But Dan abuses the processes by using small claims court. A lot of people will settle with him to avoid the hassle.”
We think we're fine with that. You? Yep, we thought so.
“I feel like I'm doing a little bit of good cleaning up the Internet,” said Balsam.
Eight years ago, Balsam quit his job in marketing to go to law school because he’d had it with the scams in his spam folder. Too many times had he received those emails insisting that the most pleasure of your woman with increase thickness penis! [sic] so Balsam went around the bend a bit and decided he was just going to sue them full-time. He’s racked up over a million dollars in court judgments and lawsuit settlements with companies who produce the piles of electronic exploitation.
But not everybody believes in Balsam’s holy war. In a twist right out of the most saucy courtroom drama, Balsam’s has a nemesis—Bennet Kelley, a defense lawyer among the rough-and-tumble litigation niche that surrounds spam.
“There is nothing wrong per se with being an anti-spam crusader,” Kelley said. “But Dan abuses the processes by using small claims court. A lot of people will settle with him to avoid the hassle.”
We think we're fine with that. You? Yep, we thought so.
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