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December 19, 2003
When does Eliot Spitzer sleep?
Fresh from personally changing the way mutual fund companies slyly steal from customers and how some Wall Street investment banks scam everyone, Eliot Spitzer is taking on the scourge of the Internet: spammers.
Today, Spitzer filed suit against three marketing companies that are choking the Internet to death with spam. Squarely in his sights: OptInRealBig.com, a company Spitzer calls the third-most proflic sender of junk email. Spitzer vows to force the company and its leader, Scott Richter, into bankruptcy.
"We are standing up and fighting," Richter told the New York Times. (It's high irony that the "Code and ethics" web page of the Email Marketing Association, of which Richter is president, says simply, "Coming soon.")
This good vs. evil battle promises to be entertaining and educational. While federal watchdogs usually mindlessly watch customers get beat up, Spitzer fearlessly sprints toward customer muggings and does something. As the customer's superhero, Spitzer holds a revered seat in the Church of the Customer.
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