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Microsoft, Amazon file joint IPR lawsuits
Friday, 8 October 2004Microsoft Corp and Amazon.com Inc have filed one joint and several separate lawsuits against companies and individuals.
The two firms allege that the phishers and spammers named have variously tried to defraud consumers by imitating Amazon and Microsoft.
In a joint federal lawsuit, filed at a district court in Seattle, against a Canadian spamming operation, the Internet giants accuse those responsible of sending millions of deceptive email messages, including e-mail forgeries falsely purporting to have come from Amazon.com, Hotmail.com, and other domains.
The suit names Gold Disk Canada Inc, along with co-defendants including Barry Head and his two sons Eric and Matthew.
The two Washington companies claim to have teamed up to tackle email scams affecting Internet users worldwide, including customers of both companies. In a statement, the pair said they had worked together to identify the architects of these schemes, and are now collaborating to test possible technical solutions that would make it more difficult to deliver fraudulent and deceptive email to consumers.
"Since August 2003, Amazon.com has received tens of thousands of e-mails from customers, alerting us to potentially fraudulent e-mail activity," said David A Zapolsky, vice president and associate general counsel for Amazon.com. "We are going to continue our efforts to protect customers from these schemes and will prosecute those responsible to the fullest extents of the law."
In addition to the lawsuit filed jointly with Microsoft, Amazon.com filed another three lawsuits in King County Superior Court in Seattle against unidentified defendants allegedly involved in phishing, while Microsoft also filed a new and separate lawsuit against Leonid Radvinsky and his Chicago-based businesses Activsoft Inc and Cybertania Inc, along with several additional unidentified defendants.
The two firms allege that the phishers and spammers named have variously tried to defraud consumers by imitating Amazon and Microsoft.
In a joint federal lawsuit, filed at a district court in Seattle, against a Canadian spamming operation, the Internet giants accuse those responsible of sending millions of deceptive email messages, including e-mail forgeries falsely purporting to have come from Amazon.com, Hotmail.com, and other domains.
The suit names Gold Disk Canada Inc, along with co-defendants including Barry Head and his two sons Eric and Matthew.
The two Washington companies claim to have teamed up to tackle email scams affecting Internet users worldwide, including customers of both companies. In a statement, the pair said they had worked together to identify the architects of these schemes, and are now collaborating to test possible technical solutions that would make it more difficult to deliver fraudulent and deceptive email to consumers.
"Since August 2003, Amazon.com has received tens of thousands of e-mails from customers, alerting us to potentially fraudulent e-mail activity," said David A Zapolsky, vice president and associate general counsel for Amazon.com. "We are going to continue our efforts to protect customers from these schemes and will prosecute those responsible to the fullest extents of the law."
In addition to the lawsuit filed jointly with Microsoft, Amazon.com filed another three lawsuits in King County Superior Court in Seattle against unidentified defendants allegedly involved in phishing, while Microsoft also filed a new and separate lawsuit against Leonid Radvinsky and his Chicago-based businesses Activsoft Inc and Cybertania Inc, along with several additional unidentified defendants.