Microsoft sues spammers over abusing Hotmail spam filters

Microsoft has filed suit against a group of spammers this week, accusing them of one of the "largest" spam attacks against Windows Hotmail, ever. Making the case more insulting to Microsoft, was the fact that the spammers used Microsoft's anti-spam filtering technologies to start the spam campaign. "The lawsuit ... alleges [the] defendants engaged in an elaborate scheme to evade Microsoft's ... [ read the full article ]