Texas Seeks Millions from Major 'Spam' Operation, Reuters, 14 Jan 2005

“Texas sued one of the world's largest "spam" e-mail operations on Thursday, seeking millions of dollars from two men it says are responsible for sending illegal messages on the Internet, the state's attorney general said. Greg Abbott said Texas filed the civil lawsuit in federal court in Austin against Ryan Samuel Pitylak, a University of Texas student, and Mark Stephen Trotter of California. The two are suspected of controlling companies -- PayPerAction L.L.C., Leadplex L.L.C. and Leadplex Inc. -- that sent millions of spam messages pitching fraudulent services.�

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