Yahoo has after years of litigation, a victory achieved on a group of spammers. The spammers must be the internet company a compensation of 610 million dollars pay. This is especially a paper victory.
Yahoo and harnessed the lawsuit back in 2008 against an unknown number of people for sending fake messages in the name of the company. In the spam messages were told that the recipients of a prize in the lottery of Yahoo had won, that after the handing over of the necessary personal data would be paid.
A federal judge has Yahoo earlier this week prevailed in the long-lingering case, as has Yahoo Wednesday evening announced. The spammers have Yahoo 27 million dollar pay compensation for infringing on the trademark of the company and 583 million dollars for violation of the U.s. CAN-SPAM antispamwet.